What's the deal with Fennel in Neovim?

• nvim-oxi

  13 813 9.3 Rust

  :link: Rust bindings to all things Neovim

nvim-oxi, which uses bindings to the C functions used by the lua API. Note that it's currently broken for nvim nightly, but I'm working on a fix.

• neovim

  1,384 76,884 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

also since much new development is done in lua (such as core features like semantic highlighting, core plugins such as man.lua and filetype.lua, and just about every new neovim plugin out there, it's a lot easier to contribute to said development once you understand lua syntax, and learning how to configure neovim in lua naturally requires you to learn lua anyways for more advanced configs.

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• tl

  54 1,950 7.7 Lua

  The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

  

There is already https://github.com/teal-language/tl, which is typed Lua. I think fennel exists to serve a different niche-- personally I use it not for any type features; I just like the syntax better, and others may find certain features like the macro system useful.

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