A notebook/coding environment for the Fennel programming language which runs from within the Warcraft client.
- Everything is fennel: if you use the tool, you should be able to hack on it.
- Self hosted. Code for the ui lives in WoW and is modifiable. The actual addon only provides what is absolutely necessary to run code.
- No lua support. There is already tooling supporting lua (Hack forks, Wowlua)
- Modular. Other addons should be able to use pieces of daffy independantly
- Multiuser. Users should be able to easily share and remix scripts. Weakauras is a good example of what we are chasing here.
- Stable communicatiion protocols. Code for communication protocols is not available from within the UI, and is only hackable by modifying the addon.
- Embrace the Lua ecosystem over the WoW when needed. We are going to need to use packages from the Lua ecosystem. Our lives will be easier if we embrace lua idioms instead of WoW idioms. One example is lua packages vs LibStub. We aren't going to rewrite fennel to use LibStub, we will just use the lua idioms for loading packages.
- You should be able to run the build from Linux, Windows Subsystem for Linux, or Mac OS X
Sadly I haven't found a tool like this with an open license. Hack claims public domain, but that claim is not from the original author. Wowlua seems to have no license whatsoever, so it is closed source. I haven't that isn't one of these, or a fork of one of these.
Setup your environment: cp .env.example .env and then modify .env according
to your system.
Install the tools for managing the dev environment:
- nix ** direnv ** lorri
These tools work on Macs, Linux, and WSL. You can roll without these, but you are on your own in that case.
make install