ljs VS yadm

- 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).

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

Everyone hand-rolls their own dotfile management system, but YADM already does everything you need:

https://yadm.io/

I've been working around this using tools built on top of git like [yadm](https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm) and relying on `ls-files` to list all my tracked dotfiles and their paths.

Still having everything in one place would make things much simpler. Great idea!

I wonder if the program i use to manage my dotfiles could help manage your scripts and extend your setup to all your desktops? Its called yadm (https://yadm.io/) it makes it so easy to have a laptop and a desktop or two.

I really like that one but still prefer yadm because you can just edit your files as usual and then yadm add them wherever you are.

If you haven’t already, this is the time to install a tool like yadm and get your computer configuration into version control. Your command-line tools can be managed by yadm directly, your system settings can mostly be managed with a yadm bootstrap script that runs things like defaults write, and the software you install can be managed with a Brewfile that the yadm bootstrap script uses to install software with Homebrew. Don’t manually download Xcode, use xcodes to do it.

I personally use YADM. It's basically a git repo on my home folder, that only tracks what I explicitly set. And you can setup bootstraps to do what you said, install a bunch of stuff or make custom changes. In it's essence, it's a set of bash/sh files that are executed sequentially when you launch the yadm bootstrap command.