irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 3 months agoSome of you guys haven't used luarocks and it showslemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down12
arrow-up1166arrow-down1imageSome of you guys haven't used luarocks and it showslemmy.dbzer0.comirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squareHudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·3 months agoIs there even an ecosystem? I don’t think I have heard of anything for Lua itself, just the stuff that embed it.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThere is luarocks, which is better than nothing, but it’s not great.
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoLua works smooth like butter with binary libraries written in C (since it’s made to be embeddable in C), but also it’s so fast that for many things people just do libraries in plain Lua.
Is there even an ecosystem? I don’t think I have heard of anything for Lua itself, just the stuff that embed it.
There is luarocks, which is better than nothing, but it’s not great.
Lua works smooth like butter with binary libraries written in C (since it’s made to be embeddable in C), but also it’s so fast that for many things people just do libraries in plain Lua.