Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig

It's a shame because it's a pretty website and the idea sounds good. I looked around in the codebase but I don't see a Lua runtime written in Zig, just a wrapper that manages dependencies (?), I guess similar to LuaRocks. It seems the difference is that the package manager is a Lua module imported and used in a user build script instead of as a CLI.

The word salad in the documentation gives me the same impression that crypto projects used to give, with various poetic/technical terms that vaguely seem plausible but never converge to a tight coherent picture.

Probably we're going to be seeing many more projects like these, a weird kind of modern art that gives a hint of an idea but leaves you confused. And like gallery owners and dealers, there would be people exchanging large sums of capital for such vague "art" whose purpose is to function as a commodity, an empty representation without meaning or value, a signifier that points nowhere.

More than one platform, different arch/ABI qualify as cross-platform, it is not stated as omni-platform... Zig CC (LLVM backed) is widely used across for materializing first-class C modules. It aims to leverage the Lua ecosystem then it is expected to rely on GNU tools for building legacy, already upstream and stablished LuaRocks packages, i.e. makefiles, or GCC dependent recipes. That is a pragmatic compatibility choice to use the existing Lua ecosystem out-of-the-box, while it is encouraged the use of moonstone native hermetic recipes (which rely on zig cc).