moonlibs
Lua libraries for graphics and audio programming (by stetre)
luv
Bare libuv bindings for lua (by luvit)
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moonlibs
Posts with mentions or reviews of moonlibs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.
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Documentation for LuaGL
If you don't mind using software developed and maintained by an individual (myself), there's MoonGL together with a few other companion libraries. They are all documented and come with quite a few examples.
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Best lua 3D engines?
Thank you for mentioning it. I wrote also bindings for OpenGL, GLFW, and a few other libraries (see https://github.com/stetre/moonlibs ). Desktop only.
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Are there any simple audio libraries?
You'll probably have better luck with an audio library, I haven't used one myself but this page lists 3 options https://github.com/stetre/moonlibs
luv
Posts with mentions or reviews of luv.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
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I can't build neovim
Hi, I had this issue and I solved it by building https://github.com/luvit/luv myself.
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Where do I go after learning lua?
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.
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What's the dogmatic way of dealing with leading and trailing newlines when running an external shell command from Neovim?
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.
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Purist neovim config
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
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Library support situation?
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.
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Run external process from neovim with lua
You should be able to find plenty of examples of asynchronous code at https://github.com/luvit/luv and translate it.
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How do I use libuv filesystem event operations for handling filesystem management for plugins?
The first thing I would recommend is read the official documentation. Both libuv and luvit (or more specifically luv)
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luv documentation in vimdoc format
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.
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[Question] Multithreading in Neovim
I'm assuming this one.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing moonlibs and luv you can also consider the following projects:
moonvulkan - Lua bindings for Vulkan
plenary.nvim - plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified. All the lua functions I don't want to write twice.
3DreamEngine - 3DreamEngine is an *awesome* 3d engine for LÖVE.
lit - Toolkit for developing, sharing, and running luvit/lua programs and libraries.
moongl - Lua bindings for OpenGL
nvim-lsp-ts-utils - Utilities to improve the TypeScript development experience for Neovim's built-in LSP client.
fs - Provide cross platform file operations based on libuv.
nvim-lua-guide - A guide to using Lua in Neovim
fwatch.nvim - fwatch.nvim lets you watch files or directories for changes and then run vim commands or lua functions.
awesome-lua - A curated list of quality Lua packages and resources.
luv-vimdocs
watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.