hotpot.nvim VS zest.nvim

hotpot.nvim

There are some plugins out there that provide the Lua glue code (e.g. hotpot.nvim), but you will still have to depend on Fennel. I have not tried any of these plugins, so I have no idea how well they work. Neovim is not Emacs, and Lua is a fine language by itself, so that's what I prefer to stick with. And Vim script of course, it may be bad for plugins, but it's actually quite nice for configuration.

Hotpot: this is mostly just a Fennel compiler, but it is quite nice at that

Another method would be to use hotpot: https://github.com/rktjmp/hotpot.nvim. It's much simpler with what it does, doesn't include the macros and helper functions but you might prefer it. Here's an example: https://github.com/rktjmp/paperplanes.nvim

While there isn't an lsp, https://github.com/rktjmp/hotpot.nvim can give you diagnostics and https://github.com/Olical/conjure can give you cmp completions

I see there are 3 approaches Using aniseed: https://github.com/Olical/aniseed Using hotpot: https://github.com/rktjmp/hotpot.nvim Using plain fennel: https://git.sr.ht/~hauleth/dotfiles/tree/master/item/vim/.config/nvim/init.lua (this is just the one I found, lmk if theres a better version of this)

Hey y'all, I'm running into this issue. The solution is to remove the directory ~/.cache/nvim/hotpot. I would like to automate this when I upgrade my home environment packages as the issue seems to happen after a home-manager switch --flake --recreate-lock-file operation.

Here's a macro I wrote ages ago for my settings. Some might turn their noses up at doing this, because really you're just making a potentially leaky if not dysfunctional abstraction over nvim's actual API, but, well I did it for fun 🤷‍♂️.

Zest: similar to Aniseed, but much less expansive. It's a good option if you want a bit less diy if you want to deal with macros

zest provides some macros for configuring Neovim and is usable with Hotpot or Aniseed.

Thanks for mentioning zest! I'm certain that it will remain primarily a macro library. I've disabled the tiny compiler it ships with by default to prevent any confusion. As such, it should be compatible with hotpot out of the box.

I would greatly appreciate it if linked to zest.nvim in your readme.

Another plugin that gave me realization is zest.nvim, which uses the Fennel language to simplify configuration by a lot. Fennel's lispyness, REPL, and macros is gonna be a huge boost in Neovim productivity.

Also, this is a shameless plug, but I'm working on a macro library that aims to streamline the configuration process of neovim with fennel. It is a heavy WIP, but I think at this point it conveys the general idea reasonably well. See tsbohc/zest.nvim for more details.