Comment by NoboruWataya

I don't dislike it but I do think it's interesting that a number of minimalist WMs seem to have converged on the idea of code as config. I have used AwesomeWM for years and love its Lua configuration for providing infinite flexibility. When I was recently looking for something like AwesomeWM but in Wayland I toyed with the idea of moving to something with a simpler config format (and Hyprland was one of the options I considered). I can see the benefit of the simplicity but I guess for the kinds of users that use these WMs, maximum configurability probably trumps everything else. (Currently I am using SomeWM which is just an attempt to get something as close as possible to AwesomeWM in Wayland.)

Personally I have grown a bit frustrated with Lua as a language, but at the same time can see why it would be a good choice for this use case.