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| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Penlight
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Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect
To have enough batteries you kind of just need penlight[1] and maybe luastd. Of course there's posix, lfs, socket, luasec and you're semi set.
[1]: https://lunarmodules.github.io/Penlight/
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I love that Lua can access file so simply using io.open, can Lua be used to delete, copy and paste folders?
https://github.com/lunarmodules/Penlight provides a bunch of functionality for stuff like that.
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[discussion] Why don't more (any?) plugin authors use penlight?
However, there's already a widely known, well-tested library in the lua community called penlight that covers a lot of lua's "missing" functionality. It's got sane string manipulation, ergonomic tables, a basic class mechanism, functional programming, enums, exceptions, path manipulation, etc...
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What would be the significant benefits if one would develop equivalent libraries that are available for Python for Lua/Nelua?
Lua is a small language and its "standard library" is very minimal. Lua's intended for embedding so usually the host program provides a broader standard library by exposing functions to lua. However, there are several standard library packages for lua: batteries and lume are focused on gamedev; Penlight aims at bringing the breadth of python's stdlib to lua; plenary.nvim for nvim plugins; and probably more for other domains. I'd definitely recommend checking these out to help get closer to functionality level of most other languages (I use both lume and batteries, but dropped penlight awhile back because I found some implementations confusing/overcomplicated/inconsistent).
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Thoughts on LUA?
Lua is a small language and its "standard library" is very minimal. This was one of my initial roadblocks. Lua's intended for embedding so usually the host program provides a broader standard library by exposing functions to lua. However, there are several standard library packages for lua: batteries, Penlight, or the aforementioned lume. I'd definitely recommend checking these out to help get closer to functionality level of most other languages (I use both lume and batteries, but dropped penlight awhile back).
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Trying Fennel for GTK apps and it's surprisingly good
As for batteries, there's things like penlight which comes with a huge set of pure Lua libraries inspired by Python. And, well, there's Fennel libraries with macros and more lispy style APIs.
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Lua's Lack of “Batteries”
I'm very surprised there was no mention of Penlight in that article. Penlight, a supplemental standard library for Lua that is heavily inspired by Python's own standard library, has been around for years now:
https://github.com/lunarmodules/Penlight
What are some alternatives?
git-blame.nvim - Git Blame plugin for Neovim written in Lua
luafun - Lua Fun is a high-performance functional programming library for Lua designed with LuaJIT's trace compiler in mind.
lua-firebase - A Firebase modules in Lua
Vermintide-2-Source-Code - Decompiled scripts from Warhammer: Vermintide 2.
functional - Functional programming utilities implemented in pure Lua.
luaforwindows - Lua for Windows is a 'batteries included environment' for the Lua scripting language on Windows. NOTICE: Looking for maintainer.
nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
lua-vips - Lua binding for the libvips image processing library
luakit - Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
sqlite.lua - SQLite LuaJIT binding with a very simple api.
batteries - Reusable dependencies for games made with lua (especially with love)
lgi - Dynamic Lua binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection