clp VS lxgui

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!

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

a fast alternative to bat for syntax highlighting in the command line (eg for fzf preview window)

https://github.com/jpe90/clp

It's super fast and has some really interesting libraries. I used parsing expression grammars to write a faster alternative to bat.

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.

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

Hello! I'm working on a small project that just highlights source files and writes them to stdout: https://github.com/jpe90/clp

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).