luv VS AstroNvim

Hi, I had this issue and I solved it by building https://github.com/luvit/luv myself.

To answer the OP's question, you could tackle luv and libuv ecosystem, as a way to connect Lua to real-world systems (files, sockets, servers...). That's one way to put Lua skills to use, there are other great answers in the thread. Another recommendation is to go through Programming in Lua book, especially the later chapters where you learn how Lua talks to the host application.

Alternatively you can get into the weeds and play around with the in built vim.loop (which is really just luv, specifically spawn to run commands on the OS and handle stdout processing via stream.

Unfortunately I doubt they are able to use netrw, it interfaces with user facing buffers too much. Telescope uses plenary which uses lua's luv implementation (bound to vim.loop). Fzf-lua uses an external binary called fzf

Lua is still actively used so there is a great number of libraries that came out in last 9 years. A decent example is the luv library that is packed with great functionality. On the whole I'm quite satisfied with the ecosystem, but it all depends on the domain.

You should be able to find plenty of examples of asynchronous code at https://github.com/luvit/luv and translate it.

The first thing I would recommend is read the official documentation. Both libuv and luvit (or more specifically luv)

I spent some time converting the luv documentation to make it available in :help and make the vim.loop module more discoverable. Thought plugin authors might be interested.

I'm assuming this one.

Not sure of all of your use cases but this is my sorta my workflow when working mobile using termux and termux-x11. i use i3 WM, AstroNvim.

One of the demo pics in the GitHub README seemingly shows a file navigation panel. Since I haven't seen any config which reproduces this feature, do you any ideas as to how it was done? I'm only aware of two packages with similar functionality (nvim-navbuddy and dropbar) but they do not display breadcrumbs as a side panel.

If you don't have much clue, this might help you. https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim/blob/main/lua/plugins/telescope.lua

My current favorite is AstroNvim: https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim, with an awesome introduction video: https://youtu.be/GEHPiZ10gOk

You really want nvim. And if you don't already know, look at astronvim. It has all the IDE-like features, and whatever new plugins pop up for nvim, the community will try to include configs for them. The community packs of Astronvim are arguably its best features. https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim