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Yeah, my experience is limited mostly to web dev, via OpenResty, and game dev, via love2d.

The Lua libraries in these areas are very well maintained.

That said 90% of the time libraries ship as a single lua file and it’s often better to copy and paste it into your project. I have a modified version of lume I like to use floating around :)

This spartan approach to libraries is a strength of Lua.




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