Currently it will keep assets loaded. Cargo could use weak references but then you'd have to manually keep references to anything you want to keep loaded, which is kind of a pain. You may be able to get away with doing something like: local assets = require('cargo').init('/') assets.some.folder = ni...

Cargo is a simple library I made that automatically loads and caches assets in a LÖVE project. It maps a directory in your project to a Lua table and takes care of loading those assets the first time they are accessed. So if you have an "images" folder with several .png files in it, you ca...