After reading some recent posts on awesome mailing list, and seeing that lua is now the new configuration language for the window manager. I went 'wtf!?!' I really liked awesome till they started deviating really far from dwm.

It may seem that I may not be the only person with the same opinion after reading the main authors blog/post http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/post/2008/05/20/awesome-3:-Lua-integration