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How many people realistically are willing to write vimscript plugins, vs how many people realistically are willing to write Lua? I know personally, after wresti
by overgard 5y ago
How many people realistically are willing to write vimscript plugins, vs how many people realistically are willing to write Lua? I know personally, after wresting with vimscript for a couple of days I'd never touch it again, but Lua is nice.
- sigzero 5y agoNew vimscript plugins are created constantly. So that isn't a good argument metric.
- overgard 5y agoIn a vacuum where there was no need for legacy vim support (lets say vim integrated lua), I can't imagine anyone but a small minority preferring vimscript over lua. My argument isn't that nobody programs vimscript, it's that hardly anyone does it by choice.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoPersonally I found the quirks of vimscript interesting when I wrote my first and only plugin: https://github.com/nburns/vim-auto-light-dark https://github.com/nburns/vim-auto-light-dark somehow being part of the ~50 year lineage of vi editors and scripting was fun to think about