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Experimental lua bindings for liblouis

Is liblouis/lua-louis beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to liblouis/lua-louis to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
2
Forks
1
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
4
Dominant language
M4
License
LGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Apr 22, 2020
Latest indexed
Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to liblouis/lua-louis

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's LGPL-3.0 license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Building the rock randomly fails
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    liblouis/lua-louis#6 · 3 comments ·

  • Split into a low level C API and a sugar coated Lua API
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    liblouis/lua-louis#5 ·

  • Make the bindings more idiomatic
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    liblouis/lua-louis#3 ·

  • Cover the whole API
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    liblouis/lua-louis#2 ·

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