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I don’t know. Vimscript is and was a terrible language to program in. Lua is so much nicer.

• city41 7y ago
  I also never want to learn a language for a single environment. With Lua and the like, I can use them in many other places, making learning them much more useful.
  • stewbrew 7y ago
    The language is only a very small and trivial part. Most time is spent with learning the API that necessarily is app specific.
    • kilburn 7y ago
      This is true only if what you're building is big enough. For something like vimscript, where most people are likely to script minor stuff, the marginal cost of learning the scripting language itself is non-trivial and increases the "barrier of entry" significantly.
      • stewbrew 7y ago
        For minor stuff you spend most time on learing ex commands (i.e. VIM API). Also, vimscript is a rather simple language. It's not haskell, we're talking about.
      • sanxiyn 7y ago
        You can do minor stuffs in Vimscript without learning Vimscript at all. You can code by analogy from existing Vimscript codes.