L5 is a fun, fast, cross-platform, and lightweight implementation of the Processing API in Lua, hosted at l5lua.org.
Hi! Thanks for starting this thread.
I’m Lee. I initiated L5 this fall/winter. L5 is a Lua-based creative coding library that should feel like home to those coming from p5.js or Processing. L5 is only 6MB, works on older computers and is lightning-fast on recent ones. It’s built on top the software framework Love2d, and was designed with concepts of permacomputing in mind.
L5 is cross-platform, and already has a lot of tutorials, a full reference, and some new approaches to documentation. For example,you can download the website for offline use, and the site has been designed to be fast and lightweight to run on lower-bandwidth connections.
L5 is new and currently in alpha. It still has bugs and is not at feature parity with Processing or p5 yet. There is an article L5 for Processing and p5.js programmers that members of this forum might be interested in. And there are opportunities for contributing to the L5 library as well as its documentation.
I’m looking forward to ongoing work with L5, and to see what community-members create.
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