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Syzygies on Dec 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation o...

I fell briefly in love with Hammerspoon, but stopped using it.

My MacOS automation is now my QMK keyboard calling Alfred workflows; I use Yabai for window management.

I admire Lua, but ran into some sharp edges learning to program in it. Still, one can get up to speed quickly if one knows other scripting languages.

Hammerspoon window management was deathly slow. Yabai is close to instantaneous.

eddyg on Dec 13, 2021 | [–]

Doesn’t Yabai require disabling SIP?

hirvi74 on Dec 13, 2021 | | [–]

Certain advanced features do, but a majority of its features does not require disabling SIP.

Oddskar on Dec 13, 2021 | [–]

I’ve never had any problem with latency when using Hammerspoon for window management.

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