Lua evolution

[Maxime Petazzoni <maxime.petazzoni@...>]

Hi,

I want here to talk about the future of Lua and its evolution, 
especially in the additionnal modules that can work with Lua.

Recently, I wanted to build a networking application in Lua. I found the 
LuaSocket module, but you must have a Lua interpreter linked with it in 
order to use socket.* calls !
That's not really what I call a simple way of extending the Lua 
possibilities :)

I think Lua should provide something quite similar to Python : a 
directory of libraries that are dynamicaly loaded with the Lua 
interpretor, and something similar to import for module loading in the 
Lua script.

I don't know if it is possible, or even if it is part of the Lua 
improvements planned.

Any comment or idea is welcome :)
- Sam
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