civlua VS plugin-ruby

http://civboot.org is basically trying to answer exactly this question

I'm designing a simple dev environment from scratch.

My solution for this is a sandboxed lua for programatic configuration:

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/luck

I can't stand JSON (for many reasons) so I created a serialization format that combines it and CSV for nested objects

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/tso

I wish the industry would standardize on a solution like this. IMO you shouldn't use a "real" language unless you can lock it down to be determinisitic. JSON is supposed to be human readable but fails for lots of real-world data like multi-line strings or lists of records.

CSV is more readable but doesn't supported nested objects.

Have you tried for any length of time?

For example, there's lots of little places where aligning keywords helps clarify code

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ds/ds.lua#L89

Formatters HATE putting multiple statements on a single line, but when they go it makes it so much easier to parse (for a person)

I've built a lua-based markdown which is more sane (from a programmer's PoV) than markdown but still concise

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/cxt

I'm planning on supporting syntax highlighting. I could imagine creating a cxx that does what LuaX is doing, except it would support rendering to the command line as well as html.

Want to team up?

Reading "big features" like "multi line input" makes me feel more than ever that we really need an ultra light weight embeddedable text editor.

I wrote one, and while it's not yet complete I can say it's really _not that hard_

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ele/README.md

Sam was one of my main inspirations in starting http://civboot.org. Awesome to see he's managed to make his own chip now!

Prettier started out as an opinionated code formatter for JavaScript, but it now supports many other languages, including Ruby. Installing its Ruby plugin is straight forward: add the prettier gem to your Gemfile and then run bundle.

You'd need a prettier plugin for Lua, similar to the ones that exist for php (https://github.com/prettier/plugin-php) and ruby (https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby). I'm pretty sure that there isn't one for Lua, but you can try googling it.

Did you try prettier maybe?

To me "stardard" ruby style is style used in the std-lib.

Whilst I can see the benefit of having an AST format code for you, e.g. if can you use it to fix language version changes like positional arguments and keyword arguments in Ruby 3,.0 I worry about how good/bad RuboCop is at formatting.

Last time I tried it, it was indenting in a different way to the std-lib.

At the time I found that prettier-ruby[1] did a much better job. Hopefully that's improved since.

1. https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby

Rubocop has a very nice auto-correct feature to automatically fix many of the warnings it gives, but we've noticed in the past that with line length issues specifically the auto-corrected files can be misformatted. For that reason, we use the Ruby plugin for Prettier to correct line length.