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- Subject: Re: Stackoverflow 2018 survey
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:43:52 +0200
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:18 AM, Erik Hougaard <erik@hougaard.com> wrote:
> In 2018 I think the lack of a proper builtin "blessed" packaging system
> really hurts Lua. People just want to npm, nuget, pip or gem it.
Well, if you already have a list like that, why not another package system? :)
(Tho it is a little frustrating that the official Ubuntu/Debian
LuaRocks is a bit old)
> p.s. This is not a rant against LuaRocks, it rocks :) - But it's not part
> of Lua.
True, but npm is not part of JavaScript either...
My understanding is that PUC Lua team is like Linux kernel team -
building the basis for userland to do the rest. Torvalds certainly has
opinions about userland (e.g. his fights with Gnome) but he is not
part of its decision making.
