stetre
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6 years ago Thank you for your kind words, very appreciated!
I don't have any plan to add other binding libraries in the near future. For some time I'll mainly use those I already wrote for the purpose I wrote them: learn graphics programming and related stuff myself. Nanovg and imgui are cool projects, but as a general rule I usually choose to bind libraries that are at a lower level than that. Although maybe, in the future...
As far as the intro, I also may write one in the future. However, I'm convinced that 1 example is worth 1000 explanations and that the best way to learn something in programming is to study someone's else code (this is the main path I take, at least). If you peek at the moonlibs repositories you'll soon find that the binding libraries are very similar to one another. As a matter of fact I do a lot of often-frowned-upon copy&paste coding... So, if you really like them and you are interested in doing something similar, my suggestion is to pick one and analyze it (vivisect it, better). Good starting points could be moonimage, because it is very simple and self-contained, and mooncl (cl, not gl) or moonal, because they are most recent and because the API they bind to are not so complex as others like, say OpenGL or Vulkan. I would avoid studying the bindings to C++ libraries (fltk, freetype, assimp...) because with C++ things tend to get messy and obfuscated very soon.
iongion
Just wanted to bring you many bows and thanks for such an awesome and useful project! The approach of offering bindings is so clean and proper for idiomatic lua. A nice intro on how we could do 'moon'-ish like bindings would be awesome. Do you have any plans to bring other popular bindings to moonlibs such as:
I am actually trying myself to modify https://github.com/starwing/lua-nanovg.git to make it work on msys and linux(the original author only offers OSX :( ) but I am very bad at it (in https://github.com/iongion/lua-nanovg)