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So, since many mediawiki systems use lua, does this mean that you can code in Lisp (or Fennel), transpile to Lua, and then run the code as a module in a media wiki system?

What about Common Lisp libraries? would they be transpiled too?

Is there even a site with Common Lisp libraries written in common lisp to be the source to be transpiled into Lua ?

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> So, since many mediawiki systems use lua, does this mean that you can code in Lisp (or Fennel), transpile to Lua, and then run the code as a module in a media wiki system?

Yes, easily.

With a little bit more work you could load the Fennel compiler up server-side so it could do the compilation for you and support Fennel "natively". I have done a similar process with TIC-80 despite knowing very little C: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/pull/597

> What about Common Lisp libraries? would they be transpiled too?

No, Common Lisp is a completely different language with little in common with Fennel.

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