Pact.nvim Alternatives

pact.nvim reviews and mentions

• Hibiscus 🌺 -- Fennel eye-candy for neovim
  4 projects | /r/neovim | 21 May 2022

  Macros are pretty attractive, because you suddenly feel really unconstrained by syntax. You can write a fennel macro to handle really weird non-uniform syntax which can be exciting. In the end, it's generally less hassle to go with functions though. Often I'll write a macro, then tune it, then tune it again, then realise I just need a function function, i.e this was all a macro initially but now the macro is simply sugar to let you go (await (my-func 10)), and even then it's pretty debatable if simply accepting a function name and arguments is particularly worse (i.e: (await my-func 10) where await is just a function), I really just wanted to retain the "call style" on the day I wrote it. They do give you a lot of power though, one of the first things I wrote after Hotpot was a macro to set keymaps to functions directly, with closure scope which would have been pretty annoying without the macro - possible as the macro is just lua in the end, but pretty annoying, annoying enough that most people didn't bind "one shot" functions. I think that is where macros really shine, allowing you to actually patch short comings, not just alter syntax. Apart from that - which is now deprecated by 0.7 - I think I have one other macro in my config which ... could actually just be a function.