[ANN] Cratera - a games-oriented Lua fork

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

Cratera is a games-oriented Lua fork, focused on keeping patchsets minimal.

https://bitbucket.org/TeamSoni/cratera

The current patchset is only 63 lines, and fully backwards-compatible 
with Lua 5.3.4, making it quite suitable as a Lua alternative for game 
development.

Most games nowadays use components one way or another, and Cratera adds 
built-in syntax for them. While "component syntax" is the preferred 
name, it can also be referred to as "runtime traits".

The syntax is a simple syntax sugar, reminiscent of Lua's own OOP 
syntax, and is defined as:

    object:component.method() --> object.component.method(object)
    object:[Component].method() --> object[Component].method(object)

The ability to use object components in addition to string components 
allows this syntax to integrate cleanly with existing runtime class/type 
systems.

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