On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 04:49:42PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31 2015, Alexis BRENON wrote:
> 
> > Why Lua has been chosen to be the language for AwesomeWM configuration ?
> 
> It's a long story, that I will talk about during a talk at the next
> FOSDEM in 2016, in the Lua and Guile devroom, for those of you who are
> interested.
> 
> To summarize, the easiest way to have a higher-level-than-C programming
> language embedded in 2008 (for a newbie like me) was Lua. Plenty of
> documentation, really easy syntax and integration system (stack based).
> Compared to the the state of Python back then for example, which looked
> way more… obscure.
> 
> I had no idea that the awesome system and API would grow that far, and
> while being neat for little programs and algorithms, writing large
> framework and more advanced stuff _can_ be a pain in Lua.
> 
> It now seems obvious it should have been Lisp (probably Guile), but
> well, history is history, and Lua is probably good enough! :)

Is there any chance of fixing this situation and reopt for another
language for configuring AwesomeWM?

Romildo

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