irelephant

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm a big fan of what it is, but I'd love if there was something unique people could come here for, I'm describing it terribly though.

 

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would be nice to hear about it in other places.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

hetzner is a very popular cloud hosting provider.

 

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, I'm the one who misread, sorry.

Yeah, compiling things from scratch is the norm for lua packages, making them really only work on linux.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Sorry if it was unclear, I constantly get cryptic gcc errors using luarocks a package manager for lua. Its years behind pip.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Pip does fail sometimes, but its not half as bad as luarocks.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

The instructions don't work half the time.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lua runs everywhere (almost), but I cannot install a uuid library on windows.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Compared to luarocks, pip is amazing.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Lack of windows support for most luarocks modules has stopped me from writing a lot of stuff in lua.

 

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@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

its

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so,

 
 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/29294671

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Its no thanks because you are making sure you are giving them no thanks.

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