Package: liblutok3 (0.4 dfsg-4.1 and others) [debports]

lightweight C API library for Lua -- shared object

Lutok provides thin C wrappers around the Lua C API to ease the interaction between C and Lua. These wrappers make intensive use of RAII to prevent resource leakage, expose C -friendly data types, report errors by means of exceptions and ensure that the Lua stack is always left untouched in the face of errors. The library also provides a small subset of miscellaneous utility functions built on top of the wrappers.

Lutok focuses on providing a clean and safe C interface; the drawback is that it is not suitable for performance-critical environments. In order to implement error-safe C wrappers on top of a Lua C binary library, Lutok adds several layers or abstraction and error checking that go against the original spirit of the Lua C API and thus degrade performance.

This package contains the linkable shared object.

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