luv VS ptpython

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.

Ptpython reads from a configuration file where we can specify custom keybindings and the REPL colorscheme. The default configuration file can be copied from prompt-toolkit/ptpython/blob/master/examples/ptpython_config/config.py.

If you like using the REPL, for Python I recommend you try https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython

REPL??? Do you have a very-easy-to-use way of running and testing your code? From vim-slime to nvim sniprun to autocommands with the built in terminal, to an external repl like ptpython (for python obviously). iron.nvim and conjure are two other neovim repl plugins. There are many ways of running the code that you're working on, and having something that makes this really easy for you is pretty essential. (sometimes I use inotifytools on linux to literally just run the script every time I save it.)

I use ptpython for my python repl https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython. I find it very convenient because it has a vim mode, and many vim similarities.

A library like ptpython should be what you're looking for, however this probably isn't an option for an exam setting.

create a repl to the standard that ptpython sets for python (both croissant and ilua leave a lot to be desired)

My bad - the >>> and ... in my post are from an interactive shell session. - so there is an implicit print - which is why you see the output.

https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython is also a good one

Even better than iPython is PTPython, which can be used like a regular python interpreter with cool features.