LuaRocks

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with LuaRocks, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Luarocks package management is painful, and each embedded Lua handles packages differently2025-05-17
LuaRocks doesn't work well on Windows, making library management hard to use2025-05-16
Package manager is a pain to work with2025-05-16
Too opinionated and clunky, so it fails for embedded scripting and packaging scripts with dependencies2025-04-08
Many packages require building C libraries from scratch, making it effectively unusable on Windows2025-04-08
Package manager feels unintuitive to use, hurting Lua adoption2025-04-07
Adding new libraries and managing dependencies is gnarly and awkward2024-09-09
Package manager is hard to use on Windows without C build skills2022-08-12
Package manager is unusable on Windows unless user has C build skills2022-08-10