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I've been saying it for years: Lua needs its Ruby on Rails moment
by sieep 1y ago
I've been saying it for years: Lua needs its Ruby on Rails moment
- flykespice 1y agoHell no, keep it small as is, no influence from big corporations and no enshittification (or having a "DHH problem" in Lua community)
- sieep 1y agoI see your point. I've just craved a rails-like experience in Lua for a while and don't believe there's anything out there yet built on Lua that can match with the big boys (rails, .NET, etc.)
- chadcmulligan 1y agoThats probably why I use it - no corporates and gamers use it so it doesn't get enshittified like java/c#/c++ etc no committees either.
- rodolphoarruda 1y agoYes, with Lapis[1]. [1] https://leafo.net/lapis/ https://leafo.net/lapis/
- sieep 1y agoLooks promising. Thanks for sharing!
- cycomachead 1y agoLapis is very cool, but I really struggle with a lack of examples and pre-built solutions for some things. Leafo's itch.io is built with it and I maintain snap.berkeley.edu. A great tool, but I'm also many times more productive in Rails. (It's an unfair comparison, to be sure!) and Openresty + Lapis is quite performant and low overhead which is great.
- codebolt 1y agoFor many, Lua is primarily known as the Roblox language. Pretty impressive that it's the language of use in a game (/set of games) with 380 million monthly active players - currently the most popular in the world.
- chuckadams 1y agoBefore then it was the World of Warcraft UI mod language. Spawned a pretty sizable ecosystem around it, though I imagine Roblox puts it to shame.