Hello it seems to be fast and good but for me there is some big issues: First of all no interface with python , basically you change the programming language ... In order to use you version we need to port all our plugin to lua. Something that is not so easy ... For example , smart importer seems to be difficult to convert to lua.
In addition, it is sometimes useful to be able to make some specific request in python. Learning lua is not is on my to-do 😁 So in order to be able to use it, we need a interface with python... Regards Le ven. 27 févr. 2026, 18:50, [email protected] <[email protected]> a écrit : > On Friday, February 27, 2026 at 2:02:03 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 1:49:43 PM UTC+10:30 [email protected] > wrote: > > It’s currently not usable for me due to the surrounding ecosystem and > plugin support > > > I agree that the lack of plugin support is a problem for most users. Even > simple plugins like auto_accounts or implicit_prices are probably in pretty > wide usage. That said, most plugins are actually pretty simple and > straightforward and if someone got their alt-beancount to a stable-ish > point and wanted to facilitate wider adoption it would be pretty easy for > them to start porting popular plugins, especially now in the AI assisted > age. And could even make that an explicit thing "open a bug report for a > plugin you want converted to my alt-beancount and I'll do it for you so you > don't have to learn rust/lua/zig" > > For example, your own effective_date plugin is roughly 300 lines of > python. For someone who was actually competent in lua they could probably > port it in an hour or less. It would probably be a weekend's work to port > the top 20-30 plugins. In a different thread someone posted about > rustledger which seems to have taken that approach and claims to come > bundled with 20 plugins that have been ported to it. > > > Very much agree: porting plugins is trivial with AI. > > IMHO, where it makes a difference is kicking the tires. Taking TurboBean > as an example, if it came with excellent, fast, Lua plugin support, and *in > addition* had as a fallback, slower but working support for existing > Python plugins, the latter would help kick the tires on it, and eventually, > adoption. The idea of “I can download and run alt-beancount against my > ledger in 1min with no modifications” is alluring. > > I could probably try telling my AI agent to “do what it takes to port over > my ledger to TurboBean so I can try it out”, but an author telling their AI > to “allow my alt-beancount to work with existing plugins” provides > predictability and efficiency. > > In the future, there is likely to be many more variants and not just > ledger, hledger, and beancount, where it makes sense to solve for easy > inter-operability. Which segues right into Simon Guest’s thread :). > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/4ae191a2-1a90-4ab2-98e9-b89c8cfdf62dn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/4ae191a2-1a90-4ab2-98e9-b89c8cfdf62dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CALUWbLefEGv1rH7PygHRwAmw1%2BiJTPne46oxgnQ6dhXeuBPTog%40mail.gmail.com.
