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Take a look at fennel. Same author as Janet, but it transpiles to Lua. https://fennel-lang.org/

Fennels cool. I use it a lot, but it inherits all the ugly bits of lua still.

Yeah I actually opt to use fennel over Lua at every chance, including my Neovim config.

Surprised to hear someone call Lua ugly, as I find it pretty and simple. The barebones-ness is part of the appeal for me as well.

I used janet for Advent of Code 2021 too. My first exploration of the language. Small world. I found janet fun but quirky. My work is at https://github.com/jimmahoney/advent-of-code/tree/master/202... .