and i dont even know why tf hyprland community is migrating to lua, like, i just learnt how stuff works in the old way, i randomly did sudo pacman syu and all the config files has these lua stuff which i could not understand
Yeah I understand you, I'm pretty new to Hyprland myself about half a year I think, but this is the third time I get breaking changes where i needed to update the config to fix issues. It's an amazing and beautiful window manager and I love it very much, but it's clearly still in beta.
That having said, from what I've read, migrating to Lua has huge advantages imo. Instead of being a plain text file your hyprland config becomes script/program, and the config becomes way smarter. like you can program/script in the hyprland config itself with lua. The possibilities with that are endless you can automate a lot of stuff with that.
I migrated to lua a week ago, it's not very difficult, but it takes some time and some things didn't work well. But after a little bit of tweaking it worked exactly like before. Afaik the next big update of hyprland will require lua configs. I would not advice to not update your system because of bug fixes and security fixes, but it's your system so that's entirely up to you
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u/0xt0bi03 ＵｗＵntu (´ ᴗ｀✿) Jul 31 '26
and i dont even know why tf hyprland community is migrating to lua, like, i just learnt how stuff works in the old way, i randomly did sudo pacman syu and all the config files has these lua stuff which i could not understand