Lux: A Modern Package Manager for Lua, Finally!
2025-04-07
Lux is a new package manager for Lua designed to address the shortcomings of Luarocks, offering a modern and intuitive experience. It features a simple CLI, robust lockfile support, parallel builds, and seamless integration with Neovim and Nix. Lux uses TOML configuration, enforces SemVer, and maintains compatibility with the existing luarocks ecosystem. It promises significant improvements in build speed, dependency management, and reproducibility for Lua projects, especially benefiting Neovim plugin developers with increased speed and stability.
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