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Lua Good First Issues

Open issues from GitHub projects written in Lua. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly; each issue links to GitHub, where you claim it and send the pull request.

Lua

Open issues
51.2k
New this week
772
Nobody on it yet
44.9k
Average difficulty
3.7/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.7/5 across 53,305 issues.
  • 11% of 53,305 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 11, 2026.

About Lua

A small, embeddable scripting language from Brazil (1993), used to script games and editors — Roblox, Neovim and Redis extensions among them.

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How many Lua issues are open here?
51,244 open issues: 772 opened in the last seven days, and 44,937 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
Can you pick one for me?
Yes: sign in with GitHub and Your next issue shows one open issue nobody has claimed, matched to your languages, your time and the difficulty you want.

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