Standard Library (@std)

The Lute Standard Library is a set of common utilities that you will almost certainly want to reach for when writing programs in Luau. In order to make Luau useful for general-purpose programming, Lute provides a standard library, under the alias @std, that aims to provide all the necessary utilities to help you author useful programs! Beyond being useful, we aim for this collection of libraries to be high-level and readily implementable by other Luau runtime environments to enable more compatibility within our ecosystem. We are actively working towards integrating these libraries into the most-used Luau runtime, Roblox. The modules in this library are broadly categorized as follows:

1. Interacting with the language -- parsing Luau, interacting with the compiler, virtual machine, and type checker.
2. I/O -- talking to the world outside of the program, including the command line, the file system, external processes, the network, etc.
3. Platform abstractions -- e.g. file system path, measures of time, and cooperative multitasking
4. General programming utilities -- libraries for interacting with tables, strings, json, and testing your code

When writing programs against the standard library, you can require them using the reserved alias @std:

local _ = require("@std/json")