I’ve been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

  • irelephant [he/him]OP
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    16 days ago

    I was thinking of making a simple SSG (Static Site Generator), and I wanted to make it in lua.
    some other cli tools, like scraping scripts as well.

    • So web scraping speed is at issue? I believe Python has beautifulsoup for web scrapping.

      Unless it’s for a learning experience, would recommend to not reinvent the wheel. Have been there done that too many times.

      I feel like the village idiot cuz not properly learning that lesson.

      • irelephant [he/him]OP
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        12 days ago

        No, speed isn’t the issue. Its installing packages/modules on windows with luarocks, the lua package manager. It doesn’t work half the time on windows.