Penlight
✅ Recently maintainedA set of pure Lua libraries focusing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files), functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder expressions,etc), and OS path management. Much of the functionality is inspired by the Python standard libraries.
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Lua · MIT · Last push 2026-10-28
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Get the project
git clone https://github.com/lunarmodules/Penlight.gitCloning downloads the source. For dependencies and installation, follow the project README.
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