Why Fennel?

• moonscript

  35 3,118 4.4 Lua

  :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua

Now I like lua, and think single pass is the way to go for interpreted, since you don't have the disadvantage of a slow compile time no matter how big your codebase gets, BUT its not great to write in. things like +=, ++, are not possible, which means the only solution is to transpile into it, which has led to some good languages like moonscript[0], teal[1] which offers static type checking, an absolute must as your codebase grows.

[0]: https://moonscript.org/

• dotfiles

  2 37 8.3 Fennel

I moved my Neovim config to fennel and haven't look back.

https://github.com/Grazfather/dotfiles/blob/master/nvim/fnl/...

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• lua-languages

  13 555 3.9

  Languages that compile to Lua

This post inspired me to look for an ML-like language that compiles to lua and I found this useful list: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages

• tl

  54 1,935 7.7 Lua

  The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

  

• aniseed

  36 594 2.1 Fennel

  Neovim configuration and plugins in Fennel (Lisp compiled to Lua)

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

• cajus-nfnl

  2 53 6.6 Fennel

  A curvy and juicy neovim configuration following the "Keep it simple!" design principle, but using nfnl instead of aniseed.

• terra

  38 2,669 5.1 C++

  Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Yuescript

  7 402 8.8 C++

  A Moonscript dialect compiles to Lua.

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

• setup

  12 68 8.9 Python

  My config, system settings, utilities, etc. (by kbd)

• spacehammer

  7 536 4.8 Fennel

  Hammerspoon config inspired by Spacemacs

• janet

  79 3,296 9.4 C

  A dynamic language and bytecode vm

  

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