Re: Suitability of Lua as a userland-programming language?

On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 02:18:17PM +0000, Bridger Dyson-Smith wrote:
> 
> Do you think incorporating a third-party Lua module would be acceptable?
> E.g. https://github.com/lunarmodules/Penlight

	That looks promising, it is modelled after Python batteries, that is a
good thing. When evaluating such libraries, after glancing at the range of
tackled problems and the interfaces proposed to solve them, because it is a
difficult problem, I always focus on date and time handling. It is not rosy,
see [1]. Right now I can't pronounce myself for or against the bulk of the
library, one must actually use it to forge an opinion, I can only say that the
documentation is not par to my expectations--the output of a doxygen-like tool
is never good enough IMHO.

	The only Lua code I have is running in kernel as a set of ZFS channel
programs, an environment where one can't import libraries, this make testing
Penlight difficult for me. Testing must await for a medium size project not
requiring network access which I should write in Lua instead of Python.


[1] https://github.com/lunarmodules/Penlight/issues/285

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