Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
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Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#2Can we PLEASE not refer people to penlight anymore? It's half broken, poorly documented, and poorly maintained. It drives me crazy to see it referred to all over the place as a good example of anything.
That being said, this is FANTASTIC. Due to the nature of lua it may well always lack a good community but thankfully people seem to be trying.
Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#3Can we PLEASE not refer people to penlight anymore? It's half broken, poorly documented, and poorly maintained. It drives me crazy to see it referred to all over the place as a good example of anything. That being said, this is FANTASTIC. Due to the nature of lua it may well always lack a good community but thankfully people seem to be trying.
Are there alternatives to penlight you'd recommend?
Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#4Can we PLEASE not refer people to penlight anymore? It's half broken, poorly documented, and poorly maintained. It drives me crazy to see it referred to all over the place as a good example of anything. That being said, this is FANTASTIC. Due to the nature of lua it may well always lack a good community but thankfully people seem to be trying.
Are there alternatives to penlight you'd recommend?
PL is an enormous library so its really superseded by a few different libraries. The stuff I used most often were the functional tools and Moses (https://github.com/Yonaba/Moses/) blows the doors off of PL in that regard.
Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#5Can we PLEASE not refer people to penlight anymore? It's half broken, poorly documented, and poorly maintained. It drives me crazy to see it referred to all over the place as a good example of anything. That being said, this is FANTASTIC. Due to the nature of lua it may well always lack a good community but thankfully people seem to be trying.
Author/maintainer here - Thanks for the kind words! Lua's nature is definitely a bit prohibitive to a tight community, so part of my intention with this list is to provide an overview of what's out there.
As far as penlight goes - feel free to open an issue or PR to discuss any inclusions/exclusions. I haven't actually used it myself, but as a fan of microlight I decided to include the big brother. Everything can be reconsidered.
Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#6"awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.
Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#7"awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.
This is a totally valid point which I considered, but I think the association of awesome- for lists like this is more valuable, since part of the purpose is to make it accessible for people outside the lua world (who probably won't know about awesomeWM anyway).
Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#8"awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.
This is a totally valid point which I considered, but I think the association of awesome- for lists like this is more valuable, since part of the purpose is to make it accessible for people outside the lua world (who probably won't know about awesomeWM anyway).
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Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#9There is another awesome-lua list that predates this one: https://github.com/forhappy/awesome-lua
The "master list": https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness
Re: Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there alternatives to penlight you'd recommend?
PL is an enormous library so its really superseded by a few different libraries. The stuff I used most often were the functional tools and Moses ( https://github.com/Yonaba/Moses/ ) blows the doors off of PL in that regard.
Have you looked at luafun? If so, what's your opinion?