Comment by phire

It looks like the previous hyprland config language was already getting close to being Turing complete;

Already has variable substitution and math, it seems to falls short of Turing completeness only because I don't see any form of recursion. But recursion is something it could accidentally gain if someone decided to add templating to the language.

Besides, looks the config files can call out to external executables, which absolutely are Turing complete. And moving to lua might actually simplify configs by allowing more things to be done inside the config system, rather than calling out.