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How AI is useful for continuing education even as a 15+year programmer [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mattroelle 2y ago|0 comments
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by mattroelle 4y ago
The primary maintainer of Fennel, Phil Hagelberg, has put together some brief instructions on how to get Fennel running inside of Powder Toy for you :) https://p.hagelb.org/hello-powdertoy.fnl.html
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by mattroelle 4y ago
Yup, same author! Although to my knowledge Calvin has mostly stepped away from the Fennel project at this point. It is primarily maintained by the same dev that made Clojure's Leiningen, technomancy.
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by mattroelle 4y ago
If you're interested in discussing further, there is a growing community that hangs out on #fennel on the Libera Chat IRC server. You can connect via matrix chat using https://matrix.to/#/!rnpLWzzTijEUDhhtjW:matrix
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by mattroelle 4y ago
Yeah, my experience is limited mostly to web dev, via OpenResty, and game dev, via love2d. The Lua libraries in these areas are very well maintained. That said 90% of the time libraries ship as a single lua file and it’s often better to cop
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by mattroelle 4y ago
I’ll also add that Fennel fixes some of things about Lua most people dislike, like the global variables by default thing. IMO it’s worth checking out even if you didn’t like Lua at first
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by mattroelle 4y ago
Not sure when you used Lua but there is a package manager called LuaRocks now which has some pretty nice packages in it for many purposes. I don't think it'd be too hard to get Lua running inside of a Python env either :) https:&
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by mattroelle 4y ago
Hi there! Once you have lua running somewhere you're 90% of the way there. You can do AOT compilation which will output lua code via. fennel -c my-fennel-code.fnl Or you can use the lua package api to automatically load .fnl files via
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Fennel: A Practical Lisp(mattroelle.com)
261 points by mattroelle 4y ago|85 comments
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by mattroelle 4y ago
Cross platform, portable lisp that compiles to Lua. It's very fast, usable everywhere, and has a large open source ecosystem thanks to the maturity of Lua.
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Fennel: A Practical Lisp(mattroelle.com)
7 points by mattroelle 4y ago|2 comments