lgameframework is a project I took on some time ago to provide a LuaJIT FFI alternative to LÖVE. It helped educate me on what was necessary to interact directly with the OpenGL layer, and understand what challenges the LÖVE developers will have in the distant future with OpenGL being deprecated on macOS. (Will they move to bgfx? Or Vulkan/MoltenVK? Who knows. Ask Alex, I suppose.)

As an interesting side note, it does things LÖVE doesn't, which may or may not be interesting depending on whether or not you think first-party 3D features, PBR, VR (See also LÖVR) are desirable in a pure Lua project.

It also serves as a hatch door project I hope I never have to use. Valve broke Source for modders somewhere between the 2007 and 2013 engine branches with SteamPipe, and the idea that you could spend literal years on a project and have some developer break your work in Bellevue was scary to me. They don't have the same respect for the modding community today that they did maybe 15 or so years back. I don't think that's going to change, unfortunately, but I'm digressing.

I trust the LÖVE team, and appreciate that it's FOSS software, but I need full control over the stack I present to developers using the Grid Engine, and I need to respect users by not breaking things.

In the event LÖVE breaks things, the Grid Engine needs to be patched to account for those changes, and Grid has been around long enough to see this happen a small number of times. I think the changes have been reasonable so far, but mature projects will inevitably end up with deprecation notices and backwards compat patches, and that's where we are now.

lgameframework is defensive software, but I'd rather continue to promote LÖVE. The only issue I see with this, and cannot condone however, are the libraries that have come out of the community with inappropriate names.

Edit: I apologize that all of this sounds a bit dark, that's not my intention, but a lot of people's hard work can be at stake. Implementors of such software need to defend their users. The LÖVE developers have created something wonderful, and I must reiterate this.

I plan on Grid being around for years to come, which means you have to start thinking about protecting that mote. Planimeter projects have been in the works since 2010. I work in a narrow subset of the gamedev space, and don't plan on stopping any time soon. It will be my life's work.