most people are on windows, so if I make something, it should support that.

Thanks, this is the explanation I was looking for.

Also, lua is the same, packages are either written in c or pure lua.

I was thinking of making a simple SSG (Static Site Generator), and I wanted to make it in lua.
some other cli tools, like scraping scripts as well.

hetzner is a very popular cloud hosting provider.

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.

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

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

The instructions don’t work half the time.

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

Compared to luarocks, pip is amazing.

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

@[email protected] , you should add this to the list.

@[email protected], would [email protected] count as a support/meta community?