Re:Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua
by mrcjkb on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:09AM
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Right, my bad.
Still, being able to do more to aid the creation and maintenance of packages than just install packages doesn't make something "not a package manager".
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Re:Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua
by Lyngbakr on Sunday October 19, 2025 @07:11AM
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It's like a package manager on steroids!
When I tried using Gleam, I loved that it came with all the basic tooling I needed and that's what I think is so wonderful about Lux. I don't want to spend my time fiddling around with setting up all the individual tools — I just want to write code. For me, Lux makes the broader experience around building Lua projects a lot more enjoyable.
Re:Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua
by MomsAVoxell on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:02AM
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I’ve come to using turboLua as my main Lua ‘Swiss army tool’, since it comes with so many things built-in, on top of a fairly functional luajit 2.0.
https://turbo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
If I can get lux to deal with the package management scenarios around a few turboLua projects, I’m pretty sure I’m going to ship much more Lua code next year.