Further migration of expressive functionality to fennel

lua/config/utils.lua

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+local M = {}
+
+-- Helper function to ensure core bootstrapping plugins are installed
+function M.ensure_plugin(name, repo, branch)
+    local path = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/" .. name
+    if not (vim.uv or vim.loop).fs_stat(path) then
+        local cmd = {
+            "git",
+            "clone",
+            "--filter=blob:none",
+            "https://github.com/" .. repo .. ".git",
+        }
+        if branch then
+            table.insert(cmd, "--branch=" .. branch)
+        end
+        table.insert(cmd, path)
+        vim.fn.system(cmd)
+    end
+    return path
+end
+
+return M