I actually have a mild distaste for Lua after spending about a month and a half using LiteXL (https://lite-xl.com/ https://lite-xl.com/), which is an editor wri

I actually have a mild distaste for Lua after spending about a month and a half using LiteXL (https://lite-xl.com/ https://lite-xl.com/), which is an editor written entirely in Lua. The thing is a spaghetti mess, with a lot of plugins relying in internal implementation details of core features, and some of them even making changes to the core and other plugins. (but to be fair, that's mostly an issue with the design of LiteXL and not Lua) The thing I don't like about Lua is that it doesn't really offer much. It's a programming language with practically zero features. Projects end up doing things, like inventing their own class system just to do OOP, and that becomes a problem for interop between projects. Performance is good, but there are other options with good performance. Although I will admit that coroutines are a killer feature of Lua that I wish more languages had. For the use-case of neovim, idk. I stopped using vim as a main editor many years ago, but I do know what you mean about the concern with startup times. However, I don't think anyone can say Python's startup times are too slow without actual data to back that up. On my machine (with Python 3.10), a simple hello world runs instantly. I'm too lazy to do a proper measurement, but it's nowhere near what I would consider slow. And idk what neovims plugin ecosystem looks like, but if Python's startup times were a real issue, I don't think I would mind having a persistent daemon to reduce the problem, especially if it means better plugins.