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This sounds amazing. I use Lua a lot, and luarocks has been nearly useless for anything I need it to do because it's so heavily opinionated. For anything more t
by MyOutfitIsVague 2y ago
This sounds amazing. I use Lua a lot, and luarocks has been nearly useless for anything I need it to do because it's so heavily opinionated. For anything more than "install a library specifically for direct execution on the local system" or anything around that, it's a non starter. Have an embedded scripting environment that works with Lua packages and you want to package scripts with dependencies for use there? Give up.
I don't know if this is better for that use case, but even if not, luarocks is clunky and annoying to use at best.
- shortrounddev2 2y agothe lua community is also incredibly dependent on C libraries, and nearly every luarocks package tries to build libs, which makes it basically useless on Windows
- giraffe_lady 2y agoUseless if you need to run it in a scripting environment where you don't have control over runtime too. The thing lua was designed and is still prominently used for.