Re: From Lua to Python?

[Jakub Jirutka <jakub@...>]

On 2. Jul 2017, at 1:48, Italo Maia <italo.maia@gmail.com> wrote:

One thing that would be nice for lua to have is "suggested libraries", like, "well, I don't put a lot of libraries in the package, but, if you need some punch, try these.

Yeah, that’s a nice idea, but can we agree on just one library for particular task? Otherwise it’d be the same as just suggesting to look at LuaRocks, maybe filter by tags. I assume that everyone knows about LuaRocks, it’s the first site you find when searching for Lua package manager…?

On 2. Jul 2017, at 1:48, Italo Maia <italo.maia@gmail.com> wrote:

ps: Thank you very much for penlight suggestion. I did not know it. 

You’re welcome! However, I actually don’t like Penlight, I consider it quite bloated, that’s why I suggested it in this case/context. That said, it’s still the first library that comes to my mind when talking about stdlib, don’t even know why.

On 2. Jul 2017, at 1:29, Peter Aronoff <telemachus@arpinum.org> wrote:

For example, moses

Yeah, Moses is not bad, but it has the same problem like underscore.js – not very functional due to arguments order that do not play nice with currying.

On 2. Jul 2017, at 1:29, Peter Aronoff <telemachus@arpinum.org> wrote:

And you can find more on Luarocks, by checking out the batteries[2] section.

I second that, LuaRocks should be the first place to check when searching for some Lua library!

Jakub