A month ago, I started work on a project in purely Lua called Astronaut Reader. You can read my earlier post about to learn what it was. I’ve decided to archive the repository and stop work on the project, however I am not one to leave something unfinished so the project technically works, you can give it a link to an Atom feed and it will get its posts and navigate through them and open their links. It’s just awfully inconvenient to use; this is due to the fact that I had made it in pure Lua which while can be “compiled” into an executable using a tool called ‘Luastatic’ is a interpreted language mostly used alongside C and C++.

It was not for naught however, it showed that I’m becoming a better programmer due to just how quickly I had worked on the project as opposed my very slow development on my previous projects. I do also know even more Lua and that does not hurt at all! It has showed not to use it as a general purpose programming language on its own.

I probably start another project with due time, with different tooling. Haskell and C with Raylib have caught my interest so it will probably be one of those.

My second semester has started so I’ll probably have less time to my own projects and to write posts. Thanks for reading!

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