Re: Awesome-Lua on Hacker News

[Roland <roland.yonaba@...>]

Dear Steve,

Well, I do reckon that this is quite mean. I haven't used intensively
Penlight, but if I was asked to mention one of the best packages/module from
which I learnt useful things, I will definitely name Penlight. I found the
code extremly clean and thoroughly understandable. In some occasion, I even
grabbed some part of it that I used for inspiration to implement my own
utility functions. I even reused some portions of Penlight in my libraries
(Moses[1] and Allen[2]). Penlight is a very nice module. Large indeed, with
multiple files (which can be a problem to some people, yet thre is
Microlight[3]) but definitely a great package. And it is not broken. I do
not think so. All the functions I tested by myself seemed to be working as
expected.

And second point to which I do not agree, Penlight is not poorly documented.
Actually, there is a pretty much complete documentation for every single
function and also a in-depth and extensive tutorial for Penlight generated
with LDoc[4]. 

So, well, you are right, do not pay much attention to what people say on the
Internet. In case I have a specific issue with a library I need for, I will
just reach the author and submit my suggestions and rants, so that he can
improve his work.

PS/ And well, Penlight got 278 stars on Github as of this writing. It just
means you must have done something right in the view of approximately that
amount of people :)

[1] : http://github.com/Yonaba/moses
[2] : http://github.com/Yonaba/Allen
[3] : http://github.com/stevedonovan/Microlight
[4] : http://github.com/stevedonovan/LDoc



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