Scriptable software

Lua is particularly well suited to be used as an embedded scripting language. Many existing software packages leverage Lua to provide users with the ability to the base of the software. All of the software listed below can be  extended using Lua.

CEGUI

Crazy Eddie's GUI (CEGUI) is a user interface system written in C++, often used for video games. CEGUI offers a Lua backend scripting module, which allows user interfaces to be built using Lua. The CEGUI library is easy to embed, and the Lua API it exposes allows for Lua to issue callbacks to the application that is embedding it.

The website is http://cegui.org.uk.

Conky

Conky is a desktop system monitor written for the X Window System. Conky is available on Linux, Free BSD, and Open BSD. Conky can be extended with Lua to offer and display information that is otherwise not available to the base software.

The website is https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky.

Premake

Premake is used to generate build files for IDEs such as Visual...