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One thing I like about Lua is that it has a limited amount of built-in types and data structures. There are no objects, just tables. And if you need a custom behavior, a metatable can be attached to any table to extend it with custom methods that integrate with the rest of Lua runtime.

I’ve been absent for a while - you may have noticed that compared to the previous year, I posted a lot less this time. There are two closely related reasons for that. First, I felt burned out from programming. Second, I finally picked up a guitar after five or more years and started recording again.

fnl-http is my current passion project - I spend a lot of free time tinkering with it, and the last week was spent on testing and fixing bugs. As you may know, I made a testing framework, called fennel-test, which has a dedicated test runner, and a set of macros for writing tests.

In the last post two weeks ago I described the process of making an asynchronous HTTP/1.1 client from scratch (minus the socket part). At the end, I mentioned that there’s a lot more to implement: Now, of course, that’s not all that needs to be implemented.

A while ago, I made a library for asynchronous programming in Fennel. It’s based on Clojure’s core.async vision of asynchronous programming using only channels. As an experiment, I’ve added a TCP support layer in that library, allowing one to create a TCP channel, and use it in the same way as a regular channel.