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by moe 5258 days ago
Why isn't Lua more widely used?

I think the major, overwhelming reason is because it has no standard library, much less a package-ecosystem such as RubyGems or Python eggs.
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ZitchDog 5258 days ago
You do know about LuaRocks, right? It's not as robust or vibrant as the Ruby or Python equivalent, but it certainly does exist.

http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/

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moe 5258 days ago
Ah, I did in fact not know about it, thanks for the pointer!

Maybe there's still hope! ;-)

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anonymoushn 5258 days ago
This could definitely stand to be better. I only learned about LuaRocks by googling around when make failed to build LuaSocket and the README was useless. By then I had been using Lua for about 3 years.
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zimbatm 5258 days ago
The part about the package ecosystem is not true. Check out luarocks [1]. It's not as well developed but it's certainly there.

1: http://luarocks.org/

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