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clp
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
I used luajit to write an alternative to bat because it was annoyingly slow for large files. It ended up being like 15 times faster. Such a cool language!
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Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license
There’s a related project that’s really cool called scintillua that lets you use lpeg lexers for scintilla. It supports over 120 languages and it’s super easy to add new ones.
https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua
You can also use it as a standalone lua library. I packaged it up to make a faster (but much less feature full) alternative to bat.
https://github.com/jpe90/clp
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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
a fast alternative to bat for syntax highlighting in the command line (eg for fzf preview window)
https://github.com/jpe90/clp
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Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically
It's super fast and has some really interesting libraries. I used parsing expression grammars to write a faster alternative to bat.
- Tutorial for embedding Lua in C standalone app
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What are the downsides of using Lua?
I recently made a project that uses a lua library to lex source files, then writes them out to stdout with syntax highlighting. Long story short at this point in my code I have a big indexed table of token names and positions. I just iterate over the token names and io.write an ANSI escape sequence that corresponds to the color type of token (simple table lookup), and then io.write the tokenized text.
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A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles
I recently learned more Makefiles by using them for a recent project of mine. I wish I had seen this when I was working on it! I learned (stole) from the musl libc configure script and makefile instead.
Makefiles aren't as easy to work with as alternatives in other language ecosystems, but I found they let me do a lot without the need for extra dependencies.
Coincidentally the author of this blog post commented on one of my reddit posts and helped me work out a few kinks in the project.
https://github.com/jpe90/clp
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Seeking feedback on command line syntax highlighter
Hello! I'm working on a small project that just highlights source files and writes them to stdout: https://github.com/jpe90/clp
lxgui
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
I discovered Lua thanks to World of Warcraft UI customisation add-ons. I later went on to build a UI toolkit with the same API, and using Lua as scripting language (lxgui).
What are some alternatives?
KataScript - A simple scripting language
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
pico8lib - Library of useful functions and tables for Lua programming for the PICO-8 fantasy console
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
fengari-phaser-tutorial-02
awesome - awesome window manager
lcpp - A Lua C PreProcessor
homeautomation-plc - A batteries included PLC runtime for Embedded Linux
xmake - 🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
CParser - A compact C preprocessor and declaration parser written in pure Lua