Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
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Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#2This is kinda really old news at this point. 0.56 just came out.
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#3I might be a good change but I left hyprland because,y configuration kept breaking. It's a good window manager so I'll change back once it gets stable. By now i3
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#4TIL I'm on 0.56 and hadn't realized there is a change.
Thinking I'll wait as long as I can and then just get an LLM to translate current config to lua once the internet has been seeded a bit with examples
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#5Old news? 0.56 is out now https://hypr.land/news/update56/
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#6I have grown pretty negative opinions of “using a programming language as a config language” after semi-recently having to spend a lot of time screwing around with someone’s Gradle Groovy abomination. Not even to mention how quickly Nix can get annoying.
I have to ask…why do people want a Turing complete language to configure stuff? I use Sway personally, which is very configurable but for any even remotely complicated logic I shell out to a set of Rust programs.
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#7I might be a good change but I left hyprland because,y configuration kept breaking. It's a good window manager so I'll change back once it gets stable. By now i3
I think the problem is with people downloading perfect configs from other people, I put the time to make my own, not overly complicated, basic window rules, nothing fancy. And it just werks, haven't changed it for 4 months (outside of rewriting it in lua, which took 30min and was quite fun).
My first hyprland experience was with ML4W (nothing against the guy) but as soon as you download it you get 10 config errors and you don't know where to begin. I took the same philosophy as arch, I install only what I understand, and this way my config grew over time, my games where spawning in 2nd monitor? I look up manual and fix it, etc..
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#8Huh? This is from May. You guys should read the more recent notes. https://hypr.land/news/update56/
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#9I have grown pretty negative opinions of “using a programming language as a config language” after semi-recently having to spend a lot of time screwing around with someone’s Gradle Groovy abomination. Not even to mention how quickly Nix can get annoying. I have to ask…why do people want a Turing complete language to configure stuff? I use Sway personally, which is very configurable but for any even remotely complicat…
I think it's only really useful for things you'd want to be able to control programmatically, like text editors or in this case window managers
Re: Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
#10I have grown pretty negative opinions of “using a programming language as a config language” after semi-recently having to spend a lot of time screwing around with someone’s Gradle Groovy abomination. Not even to mention how quickly Nix can get annoying. I have to ask…why do people want a Turing complete language to configure stuff? I use Sway personally, which is very configurable but for any even remotely complicat…
The usual answer is "config macros", because if you don't give people something Turing complete they'll just m4 their way into Turing completeness and that isn't really an improvement. (Starlark in Bazel, etc.)