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I've been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe so, but pip is years behind package managers like cargo. It really is not particularly good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Sure, and Luarocks is behind pip, and it really is particularly bad.