I'll echo others' comments that you should consider not completely ruling out Lua. I'm a Neovim user almost exclusively, and knew no Lua at all coming in to it.

I'll echo others' comments that you should consider not completely ruling out Lua. I'm a Neovim user almost exclusively, and knew no Lua at all coming in to it. In less than a day I was up to speed enough to be able to write complex extensions in it, and honestly didn't struggle much with the language itself in getting to that point. Most of my time was spent learning the APIs, not the language. That said, while I've not done so, it _is_ possible to write Neovim extensions in Python. Check out this project for details: https://github.com/neovim/pynvim https://github.com/neovim/pynvim While there are obviously many editors out there these days, IMO the ubiquity of [n]vim and emacs make them strong leaders. Convincing me to use anything else would be difficult. I love Neovim, and it fits my needs well - but my choosing it over emacs was largely arbitrary. Now I'm in a position where I understand Neovim very well but lack that knowledge of emacs. As far as I know they're on par with each other.