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The language is only a very small and trivial part. Most time is spent with learning the API that necessarily is app specific.
by 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 agoThis 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 agoFor 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 agoYou can do minor stuffs in Vimscript without learning Vimscript at all. You can code by analogy from existing Vimscript codes.