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Penlight looks like a nice target as well.

On 29 Jan 2018 12:02 pm, "Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
The "most downloaded" stats can be misleading though.

If a module is included in the dependencies of a popular
project, and that project uses CI, it will be downloaded
thousands of times. For instance my fakeredis module
has over 100 000 downloads because it is used in the
tests of a popular Telegram bot...

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Pierre Chapuis


On Mon, Jan 29, 2018, at 10:31, Etiene Dalcol wrote:
The most downloaded list at luarocks.org can also be an indicative.

Based on that, I would say lua-cjson is also a good candidate

On 29 January 2018 at 09:27, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> Is there a list of the best essential libraries for Lua?
> I want to bundle a small set of high quality
> libraries that I will test with Ravi, rather than a huge set of
> untested libraries of varying quality.

>From the end of 2013 to the end of 2016 I was running a website
called Lua Toolbox where community members could endorse
the modules they used. The website has been merged into
the main LuaRocks website and sadly this feature has been lost
in the process, but the top 5 modules at the time were:

- luafilesystem
- luasocket
- lpeg
- luarocks
- luaposix

I think they represent what I would expect in such a distribution
pretty well. Maybe not LuaRocks given that you want a different
build system, and maybe winapi as the pendent of luaposix for
Windows users... Some OpenSSL binding is also a must have.

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Pierre Chapuis



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Etiene Dalcol

Software Engineer @ Red Badger