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Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources

by MaxScheiber on 8/18/14, 3:02 AM with 38 comments

  • by spb on 8/18/14, 4:26 AM

    "awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.

  • by tjkells on 8/18/14, 3:35 AM

    Can we PLEASE not refer people to penlight anymore? It's half broken, poorly documented, and poorly maintained. It drives me crazy to see it referred to all over the place as a good example of anything.

    That being said, this is FANTASTIC. Due to the nature of lua it may well always lack a good community but thankfully people seem to be trying.

  • by sheetjs on 8/18/14, 5:09 AM

    There is another awesome-lua list that predates this one: https://github.com/forhappy/awesome-lua

    The "master list": https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

  • by walterbell on 8/18/14, 7:25 AM

    Why isn't a search engine sufficient for discovering <foo-language> packages and resources? Historically, human-edited lists don't have a long archival lifetime, e.g. original Yahoo, DMOZ, Mahalo.

    If curation is better than search, why is a curated list better hosted at github than Wikipedia, which has a lower technical cost of editing? If the problem is Wikipedia moderation, who will reconcile multiple github curated lists?

    Is the expectation that github's "awesome-xyz" repos will rank higher in Google search results than a curated Wikipedia page? Or is this github-specific SEO?

  • by luastoned on 8/18/14, 7:34 AM

    Another site that has a nice overview is http://luapower.com

  • by castell on 8/18/14, 10:39 AM

    Some more packages are on the LuaForge list: http://luaforge.net/projects/

    (though LuaForge looks outdated)

    Thanks for curating the list!

  • by J_Darnley on 8/18/14, 9:50 AM

    Your list of section anchor links appears to be broken. I click on any and nothing happens. Otherwise I look forward to browsing it.

  • by seri on 8/18/14, 11:03 AM

    Does anybody know a stable Lua package for HTML scraping, preferrably similar to Nokogiri or Beautiful Soup?

  • by alok-g on 8/18/14, 7:40 AM

    Can someone please recommend a library for music synthesis?

  • by degio on 8/18/14, 6:11 AM

    I wish I had this list when I started programming in Lua.