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ljs
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[noob here] What are the advantages of Lua?
- Luajit +FFI is the fastest, cleanest way to integrate C libs into a script. Its insane how nice it is - should be illegal :). - Lua meta tables/methods are the most under stated capability of Lua. These mechanisms allow Lua to really work like a large scale HLL. Heck you can event make a language in it! Want Lua to look like C/JS? https://github.com/mingodad/ljs There are many like this. :) - Luajit fixed at 5.2 API means its _not_ _going_ _to_ _break_ when you bring in libraries. One of my biggest pet peeves are people that think languages should always change - I think you need to read Linus's thoughts on moving ABI's any why its dumb. - If you dont like the lang, embed Lua into another lang, and then just use it for "parts" you need it for. Most of the game and sim systems I built, used this method (some with SWIG).
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
I created Lua with C/C++/Java/Javascript syntax https://github.com/mingodad/ljs
Also forked a scripting language https://github.com/mingodad/squilu and extended it to accept a pseudo C++/Java/CSharp/Typescript syntax to make easy to reuse code and have fast iteration when creating new functions (with it and minor changes I could get https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Projects/Coco/ parser to work for easy grammar development).
Create a tool for create, document and prototype database applications at "user level" in near realtime (live) https://github.com/mingodad/db-api-server.
Extended GLPK to accept a bigger subset of AMPL and made some performance improvements in the GMPL interpreter https://github.com/mingodad/GLPK
gazpacho
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
I've been working on gazpacho [1] for last two years.
It's a general purpose web scraping library for Python that replaces BeautifulSoup + requests for most projects.
Just surpassed ~2K downloads every week!
[1] https://github.com/maxhumber/gazpacho
What are some alternatives?
Tabula - Extract tables from PDF files
selectolax - Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors).
gutenberg - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
lxml - The lxml XML toolkit for Python
Nullboard - Nullboard is a minimalist kanban board, focused on compactness and readability.
html5lib - Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python
tera - A template engine for Rust based on Jinja2/Django
xmltodict - Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON
Zip Foundation - Effortless ZIP Handling in Swift
xhtml2pdf - A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
GoJS, a JavaScript Library for HTML Diagrams - JavaScript diagramming library for interactive flowcharts, org charts, design tools, planning tools, visual languages.
untangle - Converts XML to Python objects