Thanks to Lua, there’s been many new plugins written for Neovim, which has a ton of momentum behind it as a modern fork of the venerable Vim editor.
Neovim comes with Lua 5.1 and LuaJIT, so these plugins are fast. And while Lua isn’t without its issues (no language is perfect after all), the majority of Neovim’s users have taken to Lua instead of VimL, which is essentially a DSL for Vim.
Neovim runs virtually all of the old configurations and plugins, since version 0.5, Neovim can be configured almost entirely using Lua.
What’s also interesting is Neovim attracting lots of new users and creating lots of new Lua programmers. Many of the core contributors aren’t your typical grey-beard types, which is refreshing to say the least. They’re not hung-up on 0-based indexing and all of the other crap people often bring up regarding Lua.
Some of them are on YouTube and Twitch live streaming sessions of them configuring and creating plugins for Neovim, all in Lua. This alone is introducing tens of thousands of viewers to Lua programming.
It’s been quite something to watch a new generation bringing new life to the Vim/Neovim ecosystem and role Lua is playing.
Neovim comes with Lua 5.1 and LuaJIT, so these plugins are fast. And while Lua isn’t without its issues (no language is perfect after all), the majority of Neovim’s users have taken to Lua instead of VimL, which is essentially a DSL for Vim.
Neovim runs virtually all of the old configurations and plugins, since version 0.5, Neovim can be configured almost entirely using Lua.
What’s also interesting is Neovim attracting lots of new users and creating lots of new Lua programmers. Many of the core contributors aren’t your typical grey-beard types, which is refreshing to say the least. They’re not hung-up on 0-based indexing and all of the other crap people often bring up regarding Lua.
Some of them are on YouTube and Twitch live streaming sessions of them configuring and creating plugins for Neovim, all in Lua. This alone is introducing tens of thousands of viewers to Lua programming.
It’s been quite something to watch a new generation bringing new life to the Vim/Neovim ecosystem and role Lua is playing.