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Vimscript and elisp suck, but Lua isn't bad despite being 1-indexed. But in terms of access, JS wins hands down.
by btreecat 2y ago
Vimscript and elisp suck, but Lua isn't bad despite being 1-indexed.
But in terms of access, JS wins hands down.
- skydhash 2y agoYou may not like the languages, but it's way easier to add a new feature to these editors than doing the same in VSC. Especially extending a plugin.
- btreecat 2y agoI think with out a working definition of "easy/hard" it's all hand-waving. From a documentation, examples, accessibility, tooling, and number of people you can get help from, JS wins. What other metrics should we consider when comparing, API complexity, LOC for average plugins, google results? I think if we had a reasonable baseline for comparison, it would be helpful.
- skydhash 2y ago> From a documentation, examples, accessibility, tooling, and number of people you can get help from, JS wins Maybe as a general purpose language, but for this specific comparison (extending editors). Elisp and Emacs wins. Vimscript is not the best plugin language, but the interation process is way better than VSC.