Tootfinder

The new :ToHTML in #neovim is amazing. It seems to be generating the same colours including the treesitter highlights.
https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua.html#%3ATOhtml

Being rather frustrated with programming Clojure in IntelliJ, (mainly because Cursive and IdeaVim don't like each other) I tried to set up Neovim with the Conjure plugin and it 's an absolute blast to use the REPL with it.
Also I discovered that there is a Lisp on top of Lua called Fennel, which I'm looking forward to play with
#Programming

from my link log —
Compact representations for arrays in Lua.
https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/article/view/30252
saved 2025-06-22

A Lua não estš cheia, mas estš se pondo bem bonita agora.

Brazil has an interesting history of homegrown technology (see Lua!) and I guess the new big step is developing their own digital payment system: Pix.
This article is largely about US efforts against it, but also discusses the rise of Pix.
https://restofworld.org/2025/pix-brazi

U.S. targets Brazil’s payments platform Pix in trade spat
Big Tech has struggled to compete against Brazil’s beloved digital payments system, with the U.S. government now investigating the country’s “unfair trade practices.”

Advanced LPeg techniques: A dual case study approach
Zixuan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01272 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01272

Advanced LPeg techniques: A dual case study approach
This paper presents advanced optimization techniques for Lua Parsing Expression Grammars (LPeg) through two complementary case studies: a high-performance JSON parser and a sophisticated Glob-to-LPeg pattern converter. We demonstrate how strategic grammar construction can dramatically improve parsing performance without modifying the underlying LPeg library. For the JSON parser, we implement substitution capture and table construction optimization to reduce memory allocation overhead and improv…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Shygirl:
🎵 F*me (feat. Yseult)
#Shygirl
https://luapreta.bandcamp.com/track/shygirl-f-me-lua-preta-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uQW9N6ObJYPV9HKgl1AAH

from my link log —
A tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language that can be AOT compiled.
https://wareya.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/my-tiny-1000-lines-fastish-embeddable-scripting-language-can…

My tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled
TLDR: I made Filli (this is a link), a Lua/python-like embeddable language written in C23 (or C99 with GNUisms; compiles as C++ too!). The license is permissive. It’s sandboxable, like Lua. I…

from my link log —
Atmos: a language for structured concurrency and event-driven programming, based on Lua.
https://github.com/atmos-lang/atmos
saved 2025-08-20

GitHub - atmos-lang/atmos
Contribute to atmos-lang/atmos development by creating an account on GitHub.

"Instead of using regex, the Lua string library has a special set of characters..."
🫤

@… @…
Integer division makes more sense in a statically typed language like C, but is uncommon in scripting languages. (Lua, JavaScript, Python all do float division.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Chiquinha Gonzaga, Esther Abrami, Kim Barbier & Esther Abrami:
🎵 Lua Branca
#ChiquinhaGonzaga #EstherAbrami #KimBarbier