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LuaJIT written, all in one, package manager and runtime
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HN · launched Aug 4, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: software package managers · 51 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -89% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Building a custom runtime, dependency resolver, and package manager around LuaJIT requires low-level systems programming and compiler runtime expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires C, C++, or low-level LuaJIT C-API development to bundle an embeddable runtime environment with native libuv/libcurl bindings for networking and file I/O. Additionally needs a custom packaging format, SAT solver for dependency resolution, and multi-platform compilation toolchains.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: Bun (Zig-written), Lux (Rust-written), Luarocks, lpm (previous name)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 384 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #313 of 385 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Lumeet-V1 · github · 2026-10-10 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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