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Being a Debian Guy, I recently found that RPM's .spec-file macro format was an unnecessarily tedious affront to my dignity, requiring immense ergs of patience to learn and understand - that is, until I discovered that underneath it all is a Lua VM - in which case I rapidly became a .spec afficionado and advocate upon loading up the REPL-like tooling to do some actual work.

It was a delightful, yet bittersweet surprise, to discover my favourite language and VM of choice was the cause of so much frustration - but yet, once I was able to wrangle my .spec files via the REPL, a certain kind of zen state was attained and I was actually able to ship the .spec properly.

I continue to be amazed at just where and when the Lua VM pops up. I've used it myself for many, many wonderful things, and shouldn't be surprised of course .. because Lua is the VM that just keeps on giving. It is out there in so many wonderful places ..