Q:

lua meta-object protocol model: lua-coat vs loose

There is someone who uses lua-coat or loose routinely?
Which is more mature, stable, bugfree -> "better"?
Is one of them enough mature for the production environment?

lua-coat - activity none - last updated Nov.2010 - marked as beta
loose - activity none - last updated in Dec.2008 - ???

Any experience?
(looking for an answer from someone who has real experience with them :)

A:

Disclaimer: I have no direct experience with any of those libraries, but I've got some experience creating my own OOP lib.
Of the two libraries you have proposed, lua-coat seems better. My two main reasons:

It's got some fairly recent commits
It's got automated tests. IMHO Any serious lib should have them(*), but it's specially important in OOP libs; keeping track of all the things that can go wrong in a refactoring is just impossible without automated testing.

(*) My lib also has tests, mind you. They are just on a different repo, for now.

