On 2. Jul 2017, at 1:48, Italo Maia <
italo.maia@gmail.com> wrote:
One thing that would be nice for lua to have is "suggested libraries", like, "well, I don't put a lot of libraries in the package, but, if you need some punch, try these.
Yeah, that’s a nice idea, but can we agree on just one library for particular task? Otherwise it’d be the same as just suggesting to look at LuaRocks, maybe filter by tags. I assume that everyone knows about LuaRocks, it’s the first site you find when searching for Lua package manager…?
ps: Thank you very much for penlight suggestion. I did not know it.
You’re welcome! However, I actually don’t like Penlight, I consider it quite bloated, that’s why I suggested it in this case/context. That said, it’s still the first library that comes to my mind when talking about stdlib, don’t even know why.
Yeah, Moses is not bad, but it has the same problem like underscore.js – not very functional due to arguments order that do not play nice with currying.
And you can find more on Luarocks, by checking out the batteries[2] section.
I second that, LuaRocks should be the first place to check when searching for some Lua library!
Jakub