Hehe, I swear anytime Fennel is mentioned this discussion comes up, no matter what the original statement is. It’s like code golfers discussing Esolang Turing completeness. :)

FWIW I didn’t mean to imply anything here, just draw the parallel between the ergonomics of transpiled Lua. Spiritually I consider Lua to be a Lisp, and Fennel a tool for revealing this quality. I’ve actually recently combined Teal and Fennel to create a statically typed Fennel compiler, which really improves QoL for larger projects. I’m doomed to enjoy lispy or command invocation languages, both of which have fallen out of style.

Lots to learn from each.