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by 0x3444ac53 436 days ago
Fennel has actually convinced me that Lua and lisp have more in common than one might think. I don't know what the above comment was referencing, but I've always found beauty in lisp languages for having a primary datastructure that all others can be abstracted to. Lisp, classically, has list, clojure has sequences, and Lua/fennel has tables.

https://fennel-lang.org/
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creata 436 days ago
And Tcl has strings.

Fennel is more popular than I expected! It's in the official repositories of Arch, Fedora and Debian.

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cmdrk 436 days ago
as a Lisp-curious person, Fennel was a gateway drug for me
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0x3444ac53 436 days ago
Fennel is phenomenal, and is the reason I switched from chicken scheme to clojure/babashka despite hating the JVM. Neovim config, Wezterm Config, and various scripts to do things are all now written in fennel. I've also used it for game dev using Love2D.

It's a great great language, and fixes a LOT of the issues I have with Lua.

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