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This looks interesting. At one point I wanted to use a third party library using luarocks, but I gave up because it wasn't immediately working/straight-forward.

• andrewmcwatters 1y ago
  In my experience, most people don't use luarocks anyway.
  • MomsAVoxell 1y ago
    luarocks is easy to use, once you understand the importance of —-local all-the-things. Anyway, luarocks is easy to use, and is perfectly easy to integrate into most modern build and distribution tools. However, Lua is everywhere, so of course: ymmv. Disclaimer: I’ve been using Lua for decades now, its Just Great™ in my opinion.
    • shortrounddev2 1y ago
      luarocks has too many packages which require building C libs from scratch. It's basically unusable on Windows
      • mjmas 1y ago
        as long as I'm in a vs developer prompt on mine I haven't had a problem. I did build my own Lua though.
      • johnisgood 1y ago
        And to make things worse, many of them do not compile successfully. That said, luarocks is still easy to use, the problem is unmaintained packages.
  • johnisgood 1y ago
    They should, it is a breeze.