tbastos / lift

Lua automation tool and scripting framework

#Lift – automate tasks and create tools in Lua

Lift is both a general-purpose task automation tool and a framework for command-line tools in Lua. It’s well suited for creating build scripts, checkers, code generators, package managers and other kinds of command-line productivity tools.

Contributing

Anyone can help make this project better – follow our contribution guidelines and check out the project's philosophy.

Running Tests

Install busted and run busted -v at the root dir.

References

The following projects have in some way influenced Lift's design:

• Command-line interface: Go, argparse, npm
• Configuration: npm, CMake, Vim
• Diagnostics: Clang
• Task/build system: Rake/Jake, Gulp