Earlier today I was playing around with Lua and luarocks on my laptop (which happens to be a MacBook Pro). I thought maybe I’d try re-writing telechat in Lua with the LuaSocket package. After I’d installed Lua 5.1.4 via mac ports along with luarocks:
$ sudo port -v install lua luarocks
I installed LuaSocket.
$ sudo luarocks install [...]
Jun
27
2009
27
2009
LUA_PATH on OSX
Jun
27
2009
27
2009
Adventures in Lua (I)
After studying and working with Lua for about a year now, I find it to be a very powerful and innovative language. While the syntax is not my favorite, overall it’s fun to work with. Recently I started using the standalone lua interpreter for some general purpose scripting which has revealed to me a few key reasons that Lua (the language) or at least lua (the interpreter) won’t be readily employed for system scripting on a large scale anytime soon.