Hyprland switched its configs to Lua. The thread argued about dwm instead. (hypr.land)
Hyprlang configs still run for now — a community-built converter and a neovim plugin already translate them to Lua line by line, and commenters report that LLMs handle the migration without much fuss either.
The sharpest pushback wasn't about Lua's syntax at all: a NixOS packager says a year of stable, cross-compiling builds evaporated overnight once the project quietly forked its own dependency stack, breaking downstream packages for a solid month.
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