Daniel Perelman
The problem# Using my Factorio reflection library discussed previously involves interacting with Lua values that are a combination of the actual value and some metadata, so you have to know about those values to use them. Worse, the interactions I defined are quite verbose. The main thing you're...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# When developing the "garbage collector" for the Pacifist mod, I noted that I couldn't actually know which strings should be treated as references. As a workaround, I just assumed all strings were references, which worked well enough, but I wondered if there was a way to get more...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# The Factorio documentation includes a machine-readable version of the prototype API documentation. I wanted to be able to access that information from within a mod, which required somehow giving Lua access to a JSON object. The solution# Install my branch of json2lua and run it on...