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How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use (lemmy.fosshost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Vim: Clearly evil, lightning fast. Relies on vimscript for any interactivity and can barely be used outside of the editor.

I don't know why you want use Vimscript for anything outside of the editor. But if that your issue, then there is Neovim. It uses Lua instead Vimscript, but what is the benefit of using Lua outside of Vim? That changes nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lua outside of Vim has huge applications in embedded products. Dude I would kill for Lua. Do you know what we have? Common Lisp. Yeah, it's great and fancy and all, but try adding that to your CV and applying for an embedded system job.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My point is, then use Lua outside of Vim. What does this have anything to do with the language used in Vim? You can use Vimscript in Vim, and still use Lua outside of Vim. So what's the problem? It's not like Lua gets available to you outside of Vim, just because you switch to Neovim. What do I miss here?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(it was mostly a joke, but) the skills you acquire tinkering your Vim to your needs using vimscript can't be used elsewhere, whereas Emacs has the (small) advantage that at least most of one's elisp skills can be translated to common lisp quite easily (with the joke being that common lisp really isn't that useful, hence my Lua jealousy rant).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It uses Lua instead Vimscript, but what is the benefit of using Lua outside of Vim?

The only other (in fact, the first) place I've run into Lua is WoW plugins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Factoring mods also use lua. Lua is a neat little extension language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

But WoW plugins have nothing to do with Vim. That's my point. You can use Lua in WoW, while using Vimscript in Vim.