[andrewmcwatters]

In my experience, most people don't use luarocks anyway.

[MomsAVoxell]

luarocks is easy to use, once you understand the importance of —-local all-the-things.

Anyway, luarocks is easy to use, and is perfectly easy to integrate into most modern build and distribution tools.

However, Lua is everywhere, so of course: ymmv. Disclaimer: I’ve been using Lua for decades now, its Just Great™ in my opinion.

[shortrounddev2]

luarocks has too many packages which require building C libs from scratch. It's basically unusable on Windows

[johnisgood]

And to make things worse, many of them do not compile successfully.

That said, luarocks is still easy to use, the problem is unmaintained packages.

[mjmas]

as long as I'm in a vs developer prompt on mine I haven't had a problem. I did build my own Lua though.

[johnisgood]

They should, it is a breeze.