inspect.lua VS heart

inspect and strong

I've used inspect.lua to inspect the client table and I can see valid-looking formatCommand settings (using the exact efm folder that u/lukas-reineke uses)

For more complex string matching tasks that the built-in patterns cannot handle, LPeg is a good choice. It's more powerful than regexes while also being easy to use. I also wouldn't expect something like PCRE to ever be included in the Lua standard library. PCRE by itself would already be larger than the rest of the Lua interpreter + standard library.

By the way, for formatting Lua tables I like using inspect[1]. (It's not part of the standard library but oh well, that's the whole topic of today's discussion).

https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua

This is really timely article for me. I just chose to use Lua in a brand new project (https://github.com/Hyperspace-Logistics/heart) and lot of the criticism so far has been “why Lua?”

Personally I think it’s very capable language. It’s such a comfortable scripting language that I think nearly anybody could pick up and get up to speed pretty quickly. LuaJIT is also ridiculously powerful and so satisfyingly stable (Lua 5.1 for over a decade).

Heck Lua 5.1 even makes an excellent transpile target so you might not even need to use Lua to appreciate the software that runs on Lua.