Re: Fully Lua YAML library?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 3:32 PM, D. Matt Placek <atomicsuntan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Tony Papadimitriou <tonyp@acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, one major downside of Lua (vs Python, for usual example) is
>> the lack of libraries written in the language itself.
>> Pretty much everything out there (and it’s not all that much, anyway)
>> seems to be written in C as if those whose use Lua enjoy writing C more than
>> writing Lua!
>
>
> I do think partly that's because of the ease of interfacing Lua with C/C++
> and the frequency that lua is used embedded in either a C/C++ environment.
> If you already have the C environment and a C library, it's often quicker to
> write a binding to an existing C library than to write a pure Lua
> implementation from scratch.  But it does add extra complexity to have a
> dependency on building a C extension if you're just looking for something to
> use quickly and "off the shelf".
>
>>
>> To get back to your request, maybe you’d be interested to clone PyYAML (or
>> some other – many choices) from Python, and thus add one little stone to the
>> (faint) pure Lua library ‘dogma’ by sharing it. :)
>
>
> I think Pierre was right that part of the problem is the complexity of the
> YAML spec and it may just be more than I need at this point.  YAML's not a
> hard requirement for me, but I'd like a way to embed structured data in
> free-form text that's a bit more human friendly than JSON.  I'd probably
> look at other formats - HOCON or HJSON or OGDL or something over YAML if I'm
> going to implement it from scratch.
>

Why not use Lua source code? That's actually one of the original
design concepts of the language.

/s/ Adam