luv VS awesome-lua

Hi, I had this issue and I solved it by building https://github.com/luvit/luv myself.

To answer the OP's question, you could tackle luv and libuv ecosystem, as a way to connect Lua to real-world systems (files, sockets, servers...). That's one way to put Lua skills to use, there are other great answers in the thread. Another recommendation is to go through Programming in Lua book, especially the later chapters where you learn how Lua talks to the host application.

Alternatively you can get into the weeds and play around with the in built vim.loop (which is really just luv, specifically spawn to run commands on the OS and handle stdout processing via stream.

Unfortunately I doubt they are able to use netrw, it interfaces with user facing buffers too much. Telescope uses plenary which uses lua's luv implementation (bound to vim.loop). Fzf-lua uses an external binary called fzf

Lua is still actively used so there is a great number of libraries that came out in last 9 years. A decent example is the luv library that is packed with great functionality. On the whole I'm quite satisfied with the ecosystem, but it all depends on the domain.

You should be able to find plenty of examples of asynchronous code at https://github.com/luvit/luv and translate it.

The first thing I would recommend is read the official documentation. Both libuv and luvit (or more specifically luv)

I spent some time converting the luv documentation to make it available in :help and make the vim.loop module more discoverable. Thought plugin authors might be interested.

I'm assuming this one.

If you're familiar with awesome-lists, you'll be happy to know that an awesome-lua repository does in fact exist. This list contains more interesting stuff about the language, along with going deeper into certain niches that I'm not even going to start to touch.

Lua has a lot going for it. Its memory footprint is nicely small, its practical expressiveness is quite high (though not as high as Python's or Perl's), luajit's runtime performance is very good for such a highly-expressive language, and it has a great set of libraries integrating with a lot of commonly-used services.

I believe there is a way to accomplish this without seeking input from people on Reddit or message boards for new domains to contribute to.

There are lists on Github that curate libraries native to a particular programming language. For example, there is a list for Lua (https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua) and another for Python (https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python). Explore these lists to identify areas that may require assistance. Some of these lists have not been updated for years, so it is worthwhile to conduct additional research on the domain before undertaking a project.

I have personally completed a project using this approach, although I did have some background knowledge in that domain.

This was a list I got in my mind without googling... for more inspiration and see what others are doing take a look at awesome Lua: https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua

Check out awesome-love2d on github, there's tons of libraries for all sorts of stuff including UI. Also check out awesome-lua.

So I’m 100% not the person to ask but usually the “awesome” lists on GitHub are a good place to start. Here is the awesome-lua repo for example.

Disclaimer: i'm still new to this world as well, i went through this for making use of luacheck, a linter tool for Lua, but the possibilities are just endless, you can take a peek at some awesome-lua repo on GitHub to find out the amazing tools that you can implement to your projects

Look at all the awesome stuff you can do with Lua.

https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua#object-oriented-programming