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Philosophy

Why use Lumin?

Lumin Framework has been worked on for many years, and takes after many other popular frameworks in the development space such as Knit. It has been battle-tested by many and is one of the best frameworks you can use at the time of writing this. It also has a thriving community of like-minded developers that are willing to help; as well as an extensive ecosystem of other packages.

What about Typescript?

Roblox-ts support will not be added to this project. As the Luau type solver increases its featureset and compatbility, roblox-ts will soon become completely redundant. For this reason, it is not worth supporting any typescript features, especially long-term.

Alternative Frameworks

You may think to use some of the other frameworks in this list; but don't switch yet. Lumin is constantly evolving and might become better than some of these in the future.

  • Knit by Sleitnick
  • Nevermore by Quenty
  • Pronghorn by Iron Stag Games
  • Prvd 'M Wrong by Fireboltofdeath

So why not use these? Many of these have been used and cherished by many, but they are not what they live up to be any longer.

  • Knit - Has been deprecated and has zero types, along with forcing a subpar service and networking API
  • Nevermore - Introduces hundreds of packages which are complete bloat, as many people do not even use them all. Is not even considered an actual framework either.
  • Pronghorn - Adds more redundant functions and is missing a lot of the featureset most frameworks have.
  • Prvd 'M Wrong - Includes API bloat by default and implements lots of hacky metatable features which are not needed. Lumin achieves the same goal with less code overall.