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.
