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# Callisto
A featureful extension runtime for Lua 5.4, using POSIX .
A featureful extension runtime for Lua 5.4, using POSIX APIs.
Callisto is an extension to Lua that adds commonly-needed functions
and features to the language, and includes a file library to manage
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manipulate signals, a socket and networking library using LuaSocket,
and a JSON manipulation library *among many more*.
It is a standalone runtime designed for people using Lua as a
general scripting language, instead of using it embedded into
another application.
Before I made Callisto, I usually had to rely on three libraries:
luaposix for basic file manipulation and other routines, lua-cjson
for JSON parsing support and LuaSocket for networking.