lua-users home
lua-l archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]


The biggest problem I feel with Luarocks is the (lack of) documentation. I feel things could've been documented better than a GitHub​ wiki.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 16:10 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Egor Skriptunoff once stated:
> Hi!
>
> According to Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017,
> https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2017&utm_content=blog-link#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages
> Lua is ranked 9-th in "Most dreaded Languages" list:
> 2/3 of developers who are currently using Lua express no interest in
> continuing to use it.
>
> That's quite unexpected.
> Probably, most of SO survey respondents are Lua newcomers.
> What may be the reasons for their "moon fear"?
>
> Maybe, deceptive simplicity (hidden complexity) of the language?

  There's some commentary about this at reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lua/comments/60ynhr/lua_featuring_as_9_most_dreaded_language_on_stack/

  The consensus there seems to be:  it's missing batteries and I can't get
started with it in less than 5 seconds on Windows.

  -spc (And there's some grousing about LuaRocks not being as good as it
        could be, but there's no details about what is missing from
        LuaRocks)

--
--

Ryan <vandor2012@gmail.com>
Software Developer / System Administrator
https://hashbang.sh