Problem

Lute did not support user input yet.

Solution

We introduce user input support to the Lute and the Lute standard library!
Users can use the input() function found in@std/io to process and store user input from command line, piped input, or file redirection. See examples below and in examples/user_input.luau.
Functionality was implemented using libuv's library and can be found in lute/io

Examples

Scripts

Get user input

local io = require("@std/io")

local input = io.input()
print(input)

Get user input with prompt

local io = require("@std/io")

local name = io.input("Please enter your name: ")
print(name)

Ways to execute the script

Command line

$ lute user_input.luau
> [will wait for user input in command line]

Piped input

$ echo hello | lute user_input.luau

Input redirected from file

$ lute user_input.luau < input_text.txt

Future Work

• Tests
• stdout and stderr functionality and other I/O utilities.
• Currently, providing a prompt to the user with .input() will produce a new line between said prompt and the user input, this will most likely be resolved once stdout is implemented

Thank you @vrn-sn for massive help (esp with libuv) 🙏

Resolves #360