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Lua functions geared towards gamedev

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Lua functions geared towards gamedev

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01HNNWZ0MV43FF·Sep 21, 2025

Oh yeah, I used their Lume library back when I did games in LOVE2D. I actually ran into them a couple times in the IRC chat (and told them one of their ideas was bad, sorry about that rxi, I checked and it's actually a good idea lol) https://github.com/rxi/lume

In Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99

toastercat·Feb 2, 2025

Name clash with the not very well known Lua library, you should strongly consider changing the name https://github.com/rxi/lume

In Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon

wsc981·Jun 8, 2023

Maybe a little bit offtopic, but rxi also made a few Lua / LÖVE 2D libraries that I've been able to put to good use, namely shash [0], lume [1], json.lua [2] and classic [3]. He makes some nice stuff. --- [0]: https://github.com/rxi/shash [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lume [2]: https://github.com/rxi/json.lua [3]: https://github.com/rxi/classic

In fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C

nonbirithm·Jul 11, 2020

It is, it's just part of a project I'm working on that uses Love2D and integrated with it a bit tightly. But I think it could be useful. Actually when I think about it the thing I made probably isn't a "REPL" in the Clojure sense since all it has is a command line and module hotloading; there is no namespace support and the command line evaluation does not happen in the context of the program, but you can basically call a function that gives you the entire global state of the game to mess with and see changes instantly. Maybe that's a better approach than having global state shared between both as Lua has no namespace support built-in, and I don't want to hack it on to keep things simple. Here is the drawing code for the REPL in-game. https://github.com/Ruin0x11/OpenNefia/blob/master/src/api/gu... Here is the server which listens for comm

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ands using a custom protocol. I want to use nREPL at some point but that requires merging some changes into external projects with the client side tooling. https://github.com/Ruin0x11/OpenNefia/blob/master/src/intern... Here is the code which handles hotloading. It's complicated but I had to write the system so that it also handles sandboxing external mods and hooks into Lua's module management, running special checks to see if the loaded code is not part of the base game. You can probably get away with the version in lume if you don't need as much. But the point is that this is what ultimately allows changing files and seeing the changes instantly without restarting the program. https://github.com/Ruin0x11/OpenNefia/blob/master/src/intern... https://github.com/rxi/lume/blob/98847e7812cf28d3d64b289b03f... Here is the integration with Emacs. https://github.com/Ruin0x11/OpenNefia/blob/master/editor/ema...

In Programming at the REPL (2018)