Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua

Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua by zaruvi on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:32PM (#43614476)

This looks interesting. At one point I wanted to use a third party library using luarocks, but I gave up because it wasn't immediately working/straight-forward. It may have been a skill issue though...

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Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua by andrewmcwatters on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:38PM (#43614540)

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

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Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua by MomsAVoxell on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:01PM (#43615894)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua by shortrounddev2 on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:34PM (#43617585)

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

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Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua by mjmas on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @07:13AM (#43620357)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua by johnisgood on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @08:29AM (#43631316)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua by johnisgood on Monday April 07, 2025 @06:45PM (#43616757)

They should, it is a breeze.

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