useful-packages.md

Useful Lua Packages

Core

• luarocks - lua package manager
• luafilesystem - file system functions
• luasocket - core TCP / UDP / HTTP lua network library
• luaposix - core POSIX binding (fork / files / pipe
• lua-cjson - fast json for lua

Utility

• serpent - lua serializer and pretty printer
• inspect - transform lua into human readable representaton. Useful for reflection
• lub - more general purpose lua library
• penlight - useful general lua libraries
• underscore.lua - more lua util

Interesting

• luafun - functional programming for lua
• luv - libuv binding for lua
• coxpcall - encapsulated protected call that works with coroutines

Concurrency

• hive - parallel multiple lua states / actor models
• qnode - C + lua + actor model