Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua
Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua launched on April 7, 2025 with 268 votes, #107 of 7,818 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Lux is a package manager designed for the Lua programming language. It provides developers with a way to manage dependencies and packages within Lua projects. The tool is built to streamline the process of installing, updating, and organizing Lua libraries and modules. Lux is intended for Lua developers who need an organized approach to handling project dependencies, offering a structured alternative to manual package management.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
For a bit over a year, we have been cooking up Lux , a new package manager for creating, maintaining and publishing Lua code. It does this through a simple and intuitive CLI inspired by other well-known package managers like cargo . Today, we feel the project has hit a state of “very usable for everyday tasks” 1 . While extensive, Luarocks carries with it around 20 years of baggage, which makes it difficult to make suitable for modern Lua development, while retaining backward compatibility. Thanks to our Neovim plugin manager, rocks.nvim , and the later addition of Luarocks support to lazy.nvim , Luarocks has been steadily gaining popularity in the Neovim space as a way of distributing…from mrcjkb.dev
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