Why Fennel?
fennel-lang.org
Why Fennel?
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Re: Why Fennel?
#2Fennel is nice. I converted my neovim config[1] to fennel and haven't looked back.
[1]: https://github.com/Grazfather/dotfiles/blob/master/nvim/fnl/...
Re: Why Fennel?
#3https://janet-lang.org
Also by the same author.
Re: Why Fennel?
#4Linking to this without the fennel-lang.org main page which states the following
"Fennel is a programming language that brings together the simplicity, speed, and reach of Lua with the flexibility of a lisp syntax and macro system." is a bad idea. Not having this sentence on your justification is ill advised.
Not to detract from the language or anything I have found many programming languages justification to just not have an elevator pitch and I have a hard time understanding why this is the case. Unfortunately people's attention spans are extremely short.
Re: Why Fennel?
#5Fennel is pretty nice.
I wish it had gradual typing support though or at least allowed for type annotation for static tooling. Not that dynamic typing isn't a valid choice but with more and more languages getting gradual typing support it is hard to go back.
I guess we could build something like Coalton but for Lua.
Re: Why Fennel?
#6https://janet-lang.org Also by the same author.
I prefer Janet, but Fennel is great in places Lua is already supported, like in Löve2D.
Re: Why Fennel?
#7https://janet-lang.org Also by the same author.
Dammit, Janet! Ok, looks good. I'll need to look into it.
Re: Why Fennel?
#8Fennel is pretty nice. I wish it had gradual typing support though or at least allowed for type annotation for static tooling. Not that dynamic typing isn't a valid choice but with more and more languages getting gradual typing support it is hard to go back. I guess we could build something like Coalton but for Lua.
I've been working on something along those lines in eli:
https://github.com/codr7/eli?tab=readme-ov-file#type-checkin...
Re: Why Fennel?
#9Fennel is nice. I converted my neovim config[1] to fennel and haven't looked back. [1]: https://github.com/Grazfather/dotfiles/blob/master/nvim/fnl/...
Fennel is indeed nice and I rewrote my config in it too, but looked back ~2 years later and rewrote it again in Lua. I think Fennel for configuration is not justified and just adds complexity. Also the tools are not there: two existing language servers[1][2] can't compete with Sumneko's Lua language server[3] and they are fennel-exclusive and clueless about Lua code. I still like Fennel for writing more complicated code (my plugins: [4][5]) because of neat features like pattern matching and structural decomposition, both are surprisingly robust.
[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~xerool/fennel-ls/
[2]: https://github.com/rydesun/fennel-language-server
[3]: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server
Re: Why Fennel?
#10I love seeing new languages targeting the Lua runtime. I've been adding Lua scripting support to pretty much everything I make now. I recently made my SSE server programmable with Lua and it's extended the functionality far beyond what I would have had the patience and time to do myself. Highly recommend Lua with mlua-rs Rust bindings.