hererocks VS nvim-oxi

> Also it is technical and not user-friendly for windows users, because luarocks (package manager) is unusable there unless you’re skilled in C build systems and are ready to fix these issues.

I've found using hererocks[1] makes setting up lua and luarocks on Windows very easy. Running it in visual studio's command prompt has let me install pure Lua and C rocks.

However, I've noticed many rocks aren't updated on luarocks and the best way to install them is to point luarocks to the rockspec file in their git repo. (Instead of `luarocks install testy` you do something like `luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/siffiejoe/lua-testy/master...` .)

[1] https://github.com/luarocks/hererocks

You might like hererocks. I've found it to be the easiest way to get up and running with Lua on any system that already has Python.

Never used luaver but I can recommend hererocks. It's like pyenv but Lua. Just run ./hererocks.py --lua 5.3 --luarocks latest {location_to_install}.

How about reading this doc? https://github.com/noib3/nvim-oxi/tree/main/examples

thank you for the support! I'm pretty new to rust (and lua for that matter) so it took me a little while to get my head around how to use mlua in the context of a neovim plugin. Two resources that were really helpful for me were these two github projects: https://github.com/noib3/nvim-oxi and https://github.com/willothy/nvim-utils

nvim-oxi, which uses bindings to the C functions used by the lua API. Note that it's currently broken for nvim nightly, but I'm working on a fix.

I intended to do a rust version but I think it's too easy with nvim-oxi, feel free to take the initiative and make a blazing fast nvim config!

For your problem, there is a new nvim plugin framework nvim-oxi which seems promising, you may have a try.

Lol I started trying to see what that’d look like earlier this year: https://github.com/turboladen/init.rs. It works fine and loads pretty fast. Started by making https://github.com/turboladen/overkill_nvim, but stopped work after https://github.com/noib3/nvim-oxi showed up.

nvim-oxi lets you do it in Rust…

> now that https://github.com/noib3/nvim-oxi has come out, I am going to use it even less.

Woah, interesting ... provided there's success and uptake with this ... I'm imagining it could lead to a really slick and responsive editing experience that those of using (at least) slightly sluggish plugins might have been missing for a while now.