Lua is a much cooler and more useful language than I think it, publicly, gets credit for. I know it’s widely used in many industries but so many times I’ve read an article like this and thought that it could be even more widely useful.
I’m currently writing a just for me static site generator in Fennel and it’s sad to see just how many powerful packages are abandoned. A lot of it is because they are mostly complete and part of why I like it is lack of churn but a last update on 18 months ago is very different from 10 years.
I want to host knitting patterns with my site generator and techniques like this make it super easy to build a little pattern dsl. It’s stuff like that which makes me wish it was more widespread.
I’m currently writing a just for me static site generator in Fennel and it’s sad to see just how many powerful packages are abandoned. A lot of it is because they are mostly complete and part of why I like it is lack of churn but a last update on 18 months ago is very different from 10 years.
I want to host knitting patterns with my site generator and techniques like this make it super easy to build a little pattern dsl. It’s stuff like that which makes me wish it was more widespread.