Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig

Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig(moonstone.sh)

23 points by ksymph 3 hours ago | 7 comments

nusaru 2 hours ago |

I like the idea for this project, but not a huge fan of the AI-written docs.

extrordinaire 16 minutes ago | |

Contributions are greatly appreciated. Feel free to contact this email maximoverzini@gmail.com if you'd like to collaborate!

To give some context:

Moonstone is currently under heavy, messy(getting better with time), active development. As I build various Lua + Zig projects with it, API contracts, CLI routes + flags, and configurations are constantly shifting. Using AI co-authoring has been a bit of a survival mechanism to ensure the documentation doesn't fall completely out of sync with the codebase. That said, AI authored docs can definitely feel dry to the eye, and/or verbose. If you or anyone else would like to help prune, rewrite, or polish the documentation to make it read more naturally, I would be incredibly grateful for the help!

Tiberium 2 hours ago | |

I don't think it's just the docs that are LLM written.

TheGoddessInari 1 hour ago | | |

I try not to be negative, but this software seems bizarre. It's a Lua meta manager written in Zig, that calls itself cross platform (Linux / MacOS only), and depends on external gnu build tools, not even the native Zig portable retargeting llvm.

LLMs are usually too busy agreeing to push back on the ideas & details like this.

jackhalford 1 hour ago |

What is the current state of the art lua toolchain? Lua is king for dsl embedded in other software.

Used it for world of warcraft scripting and openresty http rules, that’s a wide range.