Alternatives to lua
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. lua itself: install lua.
git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://
Postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, pleas
lol-html
Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter with CSS selector-based API
libsepol
This is the upstream repository for the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) userland libraries and tools. The software provided by this project compleme
git-machete
Probably the sharpest git repository organizer & rebase/merge workflow automation tool you've ever seen
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
vim
The official Vim repository
nginx
The official NGINX Open Source repository
git-flow
Git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model
pipenv
Python Development Workflow for Humans
git-filter-repo
Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement)
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
AWS Vault
A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments
git-standup
Recall what you or your team did on the last working day
gops
A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system
xxh
🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on
stern
⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern
gcviewer
Fork of tagtraum industries' GCViewer. Tagtraum stopped development in 2008, I aim to improve support for Sun's / Oracle's java 1.6+ garbage collector
Boostnote.Next
Boost Note is a document driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity
chainsaw
Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts
pgrok
Poor man's ngrok - a multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding
Crystal
(Crystal is now Nimbalyst) Run multiple Codex and Claude Code AI sessions in parallel git worktrees. Test, compare approaches & manage AI-assisted dev
dnsx
dnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit allow to run multiple DNS queries of your choice with a list of user-supplied resolvers
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than lua — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
lua is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.