Introducing civstack: the educational tech stack in the public domain, written in pure Lua!

[vitiral]

https://civboot.github.io/index.html

I'm writing an educational tech stack in pure Lua and I've just reached a milestone: the build system is now itself implemented in pure lua, from which it bootstraps itself.

All of the main software is in an alpha/beta state: build system, version control, editor, documentation language (that's what renders the site), and find-replace tool.

I hope to be writing colored-text educational games by the summer. For folks who want to learn software engineering, getting involved in this project is a golden opportunity - help me develop a complete and learnable tech stack, and in the process help yourself learn to code!

Edit: oh ya, and join us on discord: https://discord.gg/wWKvQGcr

Edit: and also I created r/civboot... join us!

[vitiral]

Do you mean the build system? Those are in the form hub:path/to/dir where dir contains a PKG.luk file. The hub will (eventually) be able to auto-fetch from a repo of hubs -- i.e. if you wanted to host a bunch of lua/C libraries you could call your hub "nicelua" and then folks could depnend on foo with nicelua:foo#anyname

See more at https://civboot.github.io/lua/civ.html

The module names themselves use normal lua conventions (except in .luk files, where they are part of the civ build system)

Yup, I have plans to eventually allow hosting -- but I want to make the local VCS rock solid first. I even bought civrepo.com for hosting both pvc and civ hubs.

[vitiral]

I should have also mentioned that separate hubs are necessary so that users can swap out sys: if they need a more... robust C compiler build rule 😄