[mikemee]

Strongly agree. We liked Fennel so much we adopted it for building our mobile apps. We have a SQLite + Lua core that handles business logic and increasingly also view and controller logic with a thin native wrapper for iOS and Android. With over 100k downloads and active users, it’s proven itself stable and practical.

It’s a convenient way to access the immense power of SQLite, with the succinctness of a lisp-like syntax. Throw in tests that execute at 350 tests per second and it’s a fast, stable development platform.

Right now we’re building a wrapper to display graphics sufficient for simple puzzle games so we can generate the layouts and handle interactions also in Fennel (by mapping to native iOS and Android views). It also does hot reloading in the iOS simulator. Very much a WIP though. We haven’t shipped this part yet.

Fun times. Stable. Small. Uncomplicated. Great community.