hibiscus.nvim VS aniseed

local function bootstrap(url, ref) local name = url:gsub(".*/", "") local path = vim.fn.stdpath [[data]] .. "/lazy/" .. name if vim.fn.isdirectory(path) == 0 then print(name .. ": installing in data dir...") vim.fn.system { "git", "clone", url, path } if ref then vim.fn.system { "git", "-C", path, "checkout", ref } end vim.cmd [[redraw]] print(name .. ": finished installing") end vim.opt.runtimepath:prepend(path) end bootstrap("https://github.com/udayvir-singh/tangerine.nvim") -- Optional and only needed if you also want the macros bootstrap("https://github.com/udayvir-singh/hibiscus.nvim") require 'tangerine'.setup { target = vim.fn.stdpath [[data]] .. "/tangerine", -- compile files in &rtp rtpdirs = { "ftplugin", }, compiler = { -- disable popup showing compiled files verbose = false, -- compile every time changes are made to fennel files or on entering vim hooks = { "onsave", "oninit" } }, }

I can recommend using Fennel with Tangerine (integration) and Hibiscus (macros). My config here for inspiration.

For ease of use, you can use conjure for evaluating the code, cmp-conjure for nvim completions, hibiscus.nvim and nyoom.nvim macros for macros, and you can also use nyoom.nvim as a base config.

Hibiscus.nvim:

local function bootstrap (name, url, path) if vim.fn.isdirectory(path) == 0 then print(name .. ": installing in data dir...") vim.fn.system {"git", "clone", "--depth", "1", url, path} vim.cmd [[redraw]] print(name .. ": finished installing") end end bootstrap ( "tangerine.nvim", "https://github.com/udayvir-singh/tangerine.nvim", vim.fn.stdpath "data" .. "/site/pack/packer/start/tangerine.nvim" ) bootstrap ( "hibiscus.nvim", "https://github.com/udayvir-singh/hibiscus.nvim", vim.fn.stdpath "data" .. "/site/pack/packer/start/hibiscus.nvim" ) require'tangerine'.setup{ compiler = { verbose = false, hooks = { "onsave", "oninit" } } }

Fennel with hibiscus:

But, you can use another plugin of mine Hibiscus which contains bulk of zest and aniseed macros.

aniseed

You don't need to transpile it if you use https://github.com/Olical/aniseed

Something similar: Fennel (https://fennel-lang.org/) is a lisp that compiles into Lua, which nvim can use as plugins, so you can write nvim plugins in a lisp. Aniseed (https://github.com/Olical/aniseed) makes this really easy.

Just use vim. Yes, emacs has a lisp engine, but so does nvim[1]. Really, though, using vim properly means that it doesn't need to swallow the kitchen sink[2]. Just use vim.

1: https://github.com/Olical/aniseed

2: https://blog.djha.skin/p/emacs-users-im-okay-i-promise/

I use Aniseed to write my configs in Fennel, and I can't seem to find a way to get Aniseed bootstrapped and managed by lazy. Folke has said that fennel isn't supported in issues about hotpot and tangerine, but neither of them particularly help me solve my issue

:!git clone https://github.com/Olical/aniseed /home/USER/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/aniseed Cloning into '/home/USER/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/aniseed'...

Have you tried aniseed ?

Aniseed: mostly an environment, it does handle configuration. It adds a lot of clojure features (another modern Lisp) such as a module system. It does seem to be slower to startup though, but I really like how its module system works and still use it for that reason alone. There's not much boilerplate code, just add it to the header

The easiest would be to use aniseed: https://github.com/Olical/aniseed, it has a bootstrap script that downloads all the needed dependencies: https://github.com/Olical/aniseed, it also adds some syntax niceties and testing support. Here's an example of a plugin: https://github.com/katawful/kat.nvim