dot-hammerspoon vs Spoons

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dot-hammerspoon		Spoons
	Project
2	Mentions	5
225	Stars	425
-	Growth	2.8%
4.8	Activity	3.4
5 months ago	Latest Commit	17 days ago
Lua	Language	Lua
-	License	-

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

dot-hammerspoon

Posts with mentions or reviews of dot-hammerspoon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-08.

I just read that AppleScript can do literally anything. Can it send a keyboard shortcut if I do mousedown + C + mouseup?
2 projects | /r/applescript | 8 Apr 2023

Here’s his init file, as both an org-mode file and lua (which is generated from the org file).
Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2021

I believe this is the implementation I based mine on: https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-hammerspoon/blob/master/init...

Spoons

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spoons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-30.

WiFiTransitions Example lua file
1 project | /r/hammerspoon | 30 Jun 2023

See: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/blob/master/Source/WiFiTransitions.spoon/init.lua
PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers
3 projects | /r/programming | 30 May 2023

here's one I (partially) wrote for hammerspoon. https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/blob/master/Source/Token.spoon/init.lua
Alternative way of sharing spoons
3 projects | /r/hammerspoon | 1 Jan 2022

This is crossposted from this issue: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/issues/255.
Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2021

Not OP, but I found this after a little bit of searching:
https://gist.github.com/dshnkao/10865f32d69e40dc591e08e3af97...
Shouldn't be that hard to spawn a terminal with this running from hammerspoon.
Here's some Spoons that handle translation:
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/blob/master/Source/Dee...
Since everyone is getting more familiar with lua I want to give a shout out to hammerspoon
2 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Sep 2021

Fyi: I made a spoon that gives proper help docs and completion for hammer spoon. You can find it here https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/pull/240

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dot-hammerspoon and Spoons you can also consider the following projects:

phoenix - A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Translate-for-Hammerspoon - Google Cloud Translation API integration to Hammerspoon

jira-issues.spoon - Jira issues in your menubar

Le Wagon's Setup - Setup instructions for Le Wagon's students on their first day of Web Development Bootcamp

hammerspoon - A hammerspoon config with a bunch of custom spoons (sleep timer, resolution changer, paywall buster, safari hotkey utilities, window management with undo, etc).

dotfiles

setup - My config, system settings, utilities, etc.

awesome-hammerspoon - Awesome code snippets for the Hammerspoon Desktop Automation Utility

espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust