Lisp-Flavored Lua with Fennel

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First of all, what is Lua?

It's a lightweight, embeddable scripting language for applications, games, and more. It's meant to be really easy to integrate into any existing application to make configuration and scripting possible!

• Official Site: https://www.lua.org/
• What is Lua: https://www.lua.org/about.html
• Getting Started: https://www.lua.org/start.html

Fennel is a Clojure-inspired Lisp language that compiles down to Lua.

• Official Site: https://fennel-lang.org/
• Why Fennel?: https://fennel-lang.org/rationale
• Setting Up Fennel: https://fennel-lang.org/setup
• Getting Started: https://fennel-lang.org/tutorial
• For Clojure Users: https://fennel-lang.org/from-clojure
• Codebases Using Fennel: https://wiki.fennel-lang.org/Codebases
• Writing Macros: https://fennel-lang.org/macros

Configuring AwesomeWM with Fennel:

• Example config: https://gist.github.com/christoph-frick/d3949076ffc8d23e9350d3ea3b6e00cb
• friar: eval Fennel into the AwesomeWM session: https://github.com/shtwzrd/friar