Lua

Leaderboard for 4 October 2026

The biggest Lua projects on GitHub, the ones gaining stars fastest right now, and the same leaderboard a year ago. We have recorded it every day since December 2018.

Most starred today

1 Kong/kong 🦍 The API and AI Gateway 44k +39 / 7d
2 nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim A launch point for your personal nvim configuration 32k +26 / 7d
3 koreader/koreader An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices 30k +150 / 7d
4 NvChad/NvChad Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience. 29k +15 / 7d
5 nagadomi/waifu2x Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art 28k
6 LazyVim/LazyVim Neovim config for the lazy 28k +45 / 7d
7 folke/lazy.nvim 💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim 22k +21 / 7d
8 nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time. 20k +17 / 7d
9 iDvel/rime-ice Rime 配置：雾凇拼音 | 长期维护的简体词库 20k +94 / 7d
10 LunarVim/LunarVim 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven. 19k +1 / 7d
11 jcjohnson/neural-style Torch implementation of neural style algorithm 18k
12 avante-corp/avante.nvim Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE! 18k +6 / 7d
13 apache/apisix The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway 17k +20 / 7d
14 cmusatyalab/openface Face recognition with deep neural networks. 15k
15 AstroNvim/AstroNvim AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins 14k +9 / 7d
16 neovim/nvim-lspconfig Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP 14k +11 / 7d
17 junyanz/CycleGAN Software that can generate photos from paintings, turn horses into zebras, perform style transfer, and more. 13k +2 / 7d
18 xmake-io/xmake 🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua 12k +4 / 7d
19 karpathy/char-rnn Multi-layer Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM, GRU, RNN) for character-level language models in Torch 12k +3 / 7d
20 phillipi/pix2pix Image-to-image translation with conditional adversarial nets 11k
21 mason-org/mason.nvim Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters. 10k +6 / 7d
22 Sjj1024/PakePlus-Android Turn any webpage/HTML/Vue/React and so on into desktop and mobile app under 5M with easy in few minutes. 轻松将任意网站/HTML/Vue/React等项目构建为轻量级(小于5M)多端桌面应用和手机应用仅需几分钟. https://ppofficial.netlify.app 10k +122 / 7d
23 Openwrt-Passwall/openwrt-passwall 9.9k +1 / 7d
24 nvim-mini/mini.nvim Library of 45+ independent Lua modules improving Neovim experience with minimal effort 9.6k +15 / 7d
25 hrsh7th/nvim-cmp A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua. 9.5k +6 / 7d

Climbing fastest this week

A different population from the leaderboard above. These are ranked by stars gained, so a project going from 200 to 2,000 shows up here and can never appear on a top-100 list by total stars.

1 koreader/koreader An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices +158 30k total
2 iDvel/rime-ice Rime 配置：雾凇拼音 | 长期维护的简体词库 +114 20k total
3 Kong/kong 🦍 The API and AI Gateway +50 44k total
4 lite-xl/lite-xl A lightweight text editor written in Lua +28 6.4k total
5 coder/claudecode.nvim 🧩 Claude Code Neovim IDE Extension +26 3.1k total
6 olimorris/codecompanion.nvim ✨ AI Coding, Vim Style +20 6.9k total
7 neovim/nvim-lspconfig Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP +17 14k total
8 PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding-PoE2 +15 1.9k total
9 id577/FS25_AdvancedDamageSystem Advanced Damage System mod for Farming Simulator 25 +4 278 total
10 LandSandBoat/server ⛵ LandSandBoat - a server emulator for Final Fantasy XI +1 509 total

A year ago today

The same leaderboard on 4 October 2025. 1 of today's top ten were not in it.

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