The Lua community needs to learn to move on

https://hisham.hm/2026/08/04/the-lua-community-needs-to-learn-to-move-on/

#Lua #LuaLang #LuaJIT

New blog post about an update on my #FreeBSD installer in #Lua

https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2026-06-26-bsdcan26-installer.html

#UNIX #coding #opensource #OS

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A screenshot shows a FreeBSD UNIX terminal window running the experimental installer for FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT. A central dialogue box titled "Welcome" displays text stating "Welcome to FreeBSD! F1 for help. Please note that this installer is still experimental." Below this, a menu shows options like Language (English), Graphical Install, and Install (Text User Interface, which is highlighted). At the bottom, a "[ Select ]" button is highlighted in yellow.

#TIL

- switching between #Zig versions, I liked it more than the dedicated anyzig
- #Python venv activation – it's silly but feels so good, and collaborates with uv
- ensuring I have the right language server and formatter for a project, be it #Lua, #TypeScript, and trying out various options for Python
- setting LANG="C.UTF-8" only in the specific project folder because #Ansible refused to work with Polish...

The final boss was getting a really comfortable Tree-sitter setup: get the #Rust CLI, write grammar in #JavaScript, re-generate and run tests on source change as a mise Task. And then I only cloned the repo on another machine and was ready to go!

This post was written as a more cultured outlet for my excitement instead of aggresively committing mise.toml into every repository I touch

This is what #FOSS promises to be, and it does feel nice to actually do it.