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Yuescript
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kalem
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GTKKa - work-in-progress Kalen wrapper around GTK3
Kalem (C++ DEPRECATED) : Source code click
Yuescript
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Why Fennel?
I'm a big fan of moonscript, but occasionally wish it was still be improved and worked on. Yuescript¹ looks like it fixes most of my bugbears with moonscript, and it is largely a faster² drop-in replacement.
There was s little discussion here ~18 months ago³, but it will largely circular if you look as people are suggesting fennel there ;)
¹ https://github.com/pigpigyyy/Yuescript
² This probably only matters if you have tonnes of moonscript, not just a little neovim/mpv/awesomewm config or something.
³ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903133
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Using other languages
There's also some languages made to compile straight to Lua: - MoonScript is the most popular Lua wrapper - it's built to be more Python-like, featuring indentation-based scopes, function calls without parentheses, lambda syntax, list comprehension, and much more. - Yuescript is a modern update to MoonScript that adds more features (I haven't used it myself, so I'm not entirely sure exactly how it differs from MS). - Teal is a version of Lua that adds static typing for better code standards.
- data types in function definition
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Lua, a Misunderstood Language
Yes, this is unfortunately true.
There's a spiritual successor: https://yuescript.org/
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I've designed a re-imagined version of the Lua logo and some other Lua flavors just for fun, what do you guys think?
Yuescript in yellow
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100 Languages Speedrun: Episode 90: YueScript
What I didn't know about is that its fork YueScript is actively maintained, and with some extra features.
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Trying to move to Emacs again
I've put together a Lua config with Neovim, but it was still kind of obnoxious to put together. Lua isn't that great of a language, because people seem to forget it's an embed-able language for a reason (it's not supposed to give you tons of features). Using something that makes some of your more complex problems easier like Moonscript or Yuescript can make things more complex in regards to your configuration.
What are some alternatives?
sabre - The Antimony programming language
moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua
kalem.rs - Fegeya Kalem.rs, Rust implementation of Kalem, work-in-progress.
kakoune - mawww's experiment for a better code editor
forkleft - Fegeya Forkleft, C++ implementation of ~new generation~ mark-up language.
emacs-pure
kedi - Fegeya Kedi, Experimental Data Interface.
open-builder - Open "Minecraft-like" game with multiplayer support and Lua scripting support for the both client and server
DvorakX - a layout for programmers this project is a low level keyboard hooker to control mapping keys from qwerty to dvorak layout with additional programming character(s) and some functionality
dotemacs - My Emacs configuration
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua