alt Hacker News> That said I'd have preferred something other than Lua if I had the choice.
Same. I know we as a community would never agree on what that language should be, but in my dreams it would have been ruby. Even javascript would have been better for me than Lua.
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elros • yesterday at 5:35 PM
> Even javascript would have been better for me than Lua.
Why?
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MarsIronPI • yesterday at 6:02 PM
Doesn't Vim support extensions written in several languages? Or was that removed in Vim 9?
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Lua, especially with LuaJIT, is nearly as fast as C. I certainly don't want to have to run a slow language like Ruby or especially a full blown JS runtime like V8 just to run Vim, the entire point is speed and keyboard ergonomics, otherwise just use VSCode.