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Surely there's something equivalent...?

I've used Linux on desktop exclusively ~95-07. Switched to MacOS after that. Tried out mythical "Linux on the desktop" in 2018, was amused to find that iTerm2 has grown so much, and there's hard to find a good replacement for it under Linux. Of all the things I'd expect it to handle well... 8)

One of the most sophisticated Linux terminal emulators I worked with is Konsole, the KDE terminal. However, I never worked long enought with iTerm2 to learn all the features. My feeling is that there is a growing crowd of Linuxers who go for "minimalism", like tiling WMs and minimal terminal emulators, and using tools like tmux or zsh to streamline their experience.

Regarding Hammerspoon (which reminds me very much on what you can do with AppleScript), you certainly can do many of the examples (https://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#spoons) with modern-day frameworks like xdg, dbus, libevent, inotify. My feeling is that (for instance) Python PIP has pretty comprehensive libraries which allows you to use it as a glue language for all that interfaces. I would not be surprised if that even feels slimmer and more powerful then Lua in the end, but it's a matter of taste. As always.