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Hammerspoon maintainer here - I'm enjoying reading all the comments, and hoping that everyone isn't going to be annoyed that I'm mostly working on a v2 atm, which switches from Lua to JavaScript :D
Will this lead to some synergy with AppleScript, which added JavaScript a few years ago?
Hammerspoon maintainer here - I'm enjoying reading all the comments, and hoping that everyone isn't going to be annoyed that I'm mostly working on a v2 atm, which switches from Lua to JavaScript :D
Can't wait for the JS switch! Personally, it's having to figure out Lua is what's kept me away from it... :)
Hammerspoon maintainer here - I'm enjoying reading all the comments, and hoping that everyone isn't going to be annoyed that I'm mostly working on a v2 atm, which switches from Lua to JavaScript :D
I love Hammerspoon!! here's my one handed shortcuts for window control across multiple monitors: https://gist.github.com/pazimzadeh/b1c70f5f205d0b63264e7c021... What will v2 enable??
Beyond my enjoyment/productivity on the developer side though, I think v2 will be a big boost to user enjoyment/productivity, mostly because they'll be able to get much nicer IDE integrations for their config file, and be able to do things like write their config in TypeScript.
Hammerspoon maintainer here - I'm enjoying reading all the comments, and hoping that everyone isn't going to be annoyed that I'm mostly working on a v2 atm, which switches from Lua to JavaScript :D
I'm curious if the switch was for dev ergonomics or the mindshare of the languages?
I have a feeling that letting people do what Hammerspoon can do, but in a TypeScript environment that they're much more likely to know, than Lua, will be huge for the project.
Hammerspoon maintainer here - I'm enjoying reading all the comments, and hoping that everyone isn't going to be annoyed that I'm mostly working on a v2 atm, which switches from Lua to JavaScript :D
Have you though of some more modern language agnostic solution like wasm plugins users could write in anything, with the help of typed languages if they like? Or is that not feasible for a scripting project like this?
That means the core of Hammerspoon goes from being incredibly complicated, to really just a protocol conformance.
Hammerspoon maintainer here - I'm enjoying reading all the comments, and hoping that everyone isn't going to be annoyed that I'm mostly working on a v2 atm, which switches from Lua to JavaScript :D
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>Hammerspoon maintainer .. Yay! :D >.. enjoying .. :) >Lua to JavaScript :\ Well, I have been a long user of Hammerspoon, and Lua, so thanks for the great app, it made a difference for me for a long time .. would be happy to hear why , but don’t feel obliged, the switch to JS over Lua, but anyway, thanks again!
The simple answer is not having to maintain a really complicated language bridge anymore. The more complex answer is that Hammerspoon is currently about 100k lines of Objective C, and none of us really want to work on it anymore when Swift is the much nicer place to be doing macOS development. Technically we could slowly convert in-place from ObjC to Swift, but there will always be a need for "LuaSkin", the bridging…
here is my entire config hs.hotkey.bind({"ctrl"}, "D", function() hs.grid.show() end) i've tried all of the other fancy window managers and for me nothing has ever beat the ease of use of just (1) ctrl-d to see the grid, (2) type the letter where you want the top left corner of your window to be, (3) type the letter where you want the bottom right corner to be window resized
Thinking of the usecase where every task or a project deserves a certain arrangement of windows and it would be good to summon them into existence as and when needed?
here is my entire config hs.hotkey.bind({"ctrl"}, "D", function() hs.grid.show() end) i've tried all of the other fancy window managers and for me nothing has ever beat the ease of use of just (1) ctrl-d to see the grid, (2) type the letter where you want the top left corner of your window to be, (3) type the letter where you want the bottom right corner to be window resized
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing. Did you ever look into capturing the states of where all the windows are once you are done with resizing them? So as to restore them later back into position if they ever get out of alignment ? Thinking of the usecase where every task or a project deserves a certain arrangement of windows and it would be good to summon them into existence as and when needed?
cmd+, and it transcribes on release.