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Italo Maia writes:

> The thing is that Lua doesn't have an official docker image, like other
> languages do. Reaching out to the dockerhub repo, I got this reply
> https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/3404
>
> Where I'm advised to reach out to the community (doing it now) to learn if
> there is interest in maintaining such a image, given the initial version is
> provided or if collaboration could be expected or if there is no
> opposition.
>
> So?

A basic Lua is simple enough and changes rarely, it is therefor well
supported by most Linux distros. This makes the need for a dedicated
docker image less pressing. E.g., this works fine:

    FROM alpine
    RUN apk add --no-cache lua5.3 luarocks
    CMD ["lua5.3"]

Putting something like this up as an official image would be overkill.
That being said, it *would* be nice to just write `FROM lua:5.3.5`
instead.

Cheers,
Albert