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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

@… I knew I’d seen it recently!
Yes please, almost anything that Lua would do is something I would actively avoid doing.

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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.)

I found that a good exercise to get a deep understanding/ refreshing of datastructures is to implement them using Lua tables
#Lua #programming #DataStructures

"Instead of using regex, the Lua string library has a special set of characters..."
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@… Well, sounds like you’re doing something far more extravagant, but in case it helps: https://codeberg.org/ooble/fyg…

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

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

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
Lua F. T. Airoldi, Gustavo F. S. Alves, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Gabriel M. Salla, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24666

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
A black hole is expected to end its lifetime in a cataclysmic runaway burst of Hawking radiation, emitting all Standard Model particles with ultra-high energies. Thus, the explosion of a nearby primordial black hole (PBH) has been proposed as a possible explanation for the $\sim 220$ PeV neutrino-like event recently reported by the KM3NeT collaboration. Assuming a PBH origin, we find that the source would need to lie at a distance of approximately $4 \times 10^{-5}$ pc, i.e., within the Solar S…

Chasing Serendipity: Tackling Transient Sources with Neutrino Telescopes
Lua F. T. Airoldi, Gustavo F. S. Alves, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Gabriel M. Salla, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24652

Chasing Serendipity: Tackling Transient Sources with Neutrino Telescopes
The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos by IceCube marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. Yet, the origin and production mechanisms of these neutrinos remain open questions. With the recent observation of the highest-energy neutrino event to date by the KM3NeT collaboration, transient sources - astrophysical objects that emit particles in brief, localized bursts - have emerged as promising candidates. In this work, we revisit the identification of such sources in IceCube and future ne…

@… Best of luck!
I checked my history and it seems I started out by symlinking the neovim config file to ~/.vimrc, and aliasing `nvim` to `vim`, with no other changes.
This was 8–9 years ago, apparently, so hopefully that still works.
I did eventually rewrite my config in Lua but only after plodding along fine for several years.

tl,dr: imho beginners should start with with either Go or Lua
Friends hit me with the age old question for their child which wants to learn programming: which language should one start with?
This had me thinking quite a bit. First thing that came to my mind was #Kotlin, my favourite, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, because it is quite heavy in high level concepts. …