Re: Awesome-Lua on Hacker News

[Hisham <h@...>]

I recently ran some statistics for the first time on download numbers
for LuaRocks modules in the original server (I think I had access.log
data for the last two years or so). I don't have it here with me now
(they're somewhere in a harddrive that just woke up dead this morning)
but IIRC Penlight was the most popular rock apart from the ones that
originated at PUC (like LuaSocket, LPeg, LuaFileSystem). I don't
recall the exact rankings but I can dig it up.

Penlight is an essential project in the Lua ecosystem.

-- Hisham

On 18 August 2014 06:36, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8191285
>
> Confusing for the users of the window manager, as observed.
>
> Rather spoilt my Monday actually:
>
> "Can we PLEASE not refer people to penlight anymore? It's half broken,
> poorly documented, and poorly maintained. It drives me crazy to see it
> referred to all over the place as a good example of anything."
>
> Sigh, if one pays attention to every random guy on the Internet....
>
> steve d.
>