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However, as a longtime user of Lua, I would still greatly appreciate a default set of "batteries-included" libraries as an option, like what you'll find in Pyth
by nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
However, as a longtime user of Lua, I would still greatly appreciate a default set of "batteries-included" libraries as an option, like what you'll find in Python, so that it could/would be that much faster to write simple applications in pure Lua, without needing to deal with compiling/bridging to C/C++ libraries...
- silentbicycle 18y agoAs a longtime Lua user, you're probably aware of this, but I'm also writing for the other people reading the thread... :) Look at LuaRocks (http://www.luarocks.org/ http://www.luarocks.org/). It's an attempt at a CPAN-like package collection. The stdlib and bitlib libraries, in particular, are pretty necessary. (Also, http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/ http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/ has some others.) Lua errs on the side of only putting what can be implemented fully portably in ANSI C in its standard libary, which makes it a bit spare.