Practicalli recommends Fennel as the programming language for configuring Neovim.
Important packages used in this guide are written in Fennel, especially the excellent Conjure package that provides the Clojure REPL (and support for several other language enviroments).
Fennel is a programming language that brings together the speed, simplicity, and reach of Lua with the flexibility of a lisp syntax and macro system.
Full Lua compatibility: Easily call any Lua function or library from Fennel and vice-versa.
Zero overhead: Compiled code should be just as efficient as hand-written Lua.
Compile-time macros: Ship compiled code with no runtime dependency on Fennel.
Embeddable: Fennel is a one-file library as well as an executable. Embed it in other programs to support runtime extensibility and interactive development.
Anywhere you can run Lua code, you can run Fennel code.
Lua is the defacto language for writing Neovim packages, although there are more developers seeing Fennel as a viable alternative.
Fennel is converted to Lua using the aniseed package
Aniseed bridges the gap between Fennel (a Lisp that compiles to Lua) and Neovim. Allowing you to easily write plugins or configuration in a Clojure-like Lisp with great runtime performance.
Lua to Fennel
Package configuration is typically provided in Lua code, so requires translation into fennel.
Anti-fennel (think antipasta) converts Lua code into Fennel code
Practicalli recommends Fennel as the programming language for configuring Neovim.
Important packages used in this guide are written in Fennel, especially the excellent Conjure package that provides the Clojure REPL (and support for several other language enviroments).
Fennel is a programming language that brings together the speed, simplicity, and reach of Lua with the flexibility of a lisp syntax and macro system.
Anywhere you can run Lua code, you can run Fennel code.
https://fennel-lang.org/
Fennel to Lua
Lua is the defacto language for writing Neovim packages, although there are more developers seeing Fennel as a viable alternative.
Fennel is converted to Lua using the aniseed package
Aniseed bridges the gap between Fennel (a Lisp that compiles to Lua) and Neovim. Allowing you to easily write plugins or configuration in a Clojure-like Lisp with great runtime performance.
Lua to Fennel
Package configuration is typically provided in Lua code, so requires translation into fennel. Anti-fennel (think antipasta) converts Lua code into Fennel code
There is an online conversion tool at See Fennel
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