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#2106 in Network programming

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MIT license

1.5MB
3K SLoC

Rust 2K SLoC // 0.0% comments Lua 1K SLoC // 0.2% comments

mlua-socket

A Rust-native implementation of LuaSocket for mlua.

License Arch Lua

Installing

Add to your Rust project using one of MLua's features: [lua51, lua52, lua53, lua54, luajit, luajit52].

$ cargo add mlua-socket --features luajit

Testing

$ make check

Benchmarking

$ make bench

Using

use mlua::Lua;

let lua = Lua::new();
mlua_socket::preload(&lua);
let script = r#"
    local socket = require('socket')
    local client = socket.connect('127.0.0.1', 3000)
    return client:send('abcd')
"#;
let _last_index: u16 = lua.load(script).eval()?;

Dependencies

~24–42MB
~610K SLoC