nvim-peekup VS nvim-lua-guide

Have a look at the plugin repository, it is a fun way to interact with vim registers, an aspect that is often overlooked by many users.

You could use my plugin (normal mode only) :-)

I understand your concern but ultimately open sourcing projects means exactly that people are free to take them and use/re-write them at will (unless specified otherwise, and even in that case you shouldn't have open sourced it in the first place otherwise). I myself am the author of nvim-peekup and shortly after I published an extremely similar plugin was born (exactly same functionalities, slight minor changes) - I won't cite it because I don't want to spotlight them (but you could find it in any list of nvim plugins nowadays) and because my code being free means people can copy&paste at will.

A plugin that helps with that is nvim-peekup :)

nvim-peekup

someone wrote a sexier version of it: nvim-peekup (neovim only) :p

You can now opt out of the delay. Credits to u/mfontani for this and other features!

This is how (with a little self-promotion of my plugin) :p

This merge request implements your suggestion, making it compatible with the latest builds.

Nvim Lua guide

My main struggles beyond a simple problem are just the inability to find a way to easily debug things and the general process for setting up a plugin. I mostly work with Python/Jupyter, some C and Lua/Bash scripts, and usually you can either write tests/print debug for smaller scale things or get some stack trace if you have an error. With Neovim development, it just feels like there's nothing more besides update plugin, try on neovim, fail, bash head against wall, and repeat, and that doesn't quite seem efficient or correct - I'm sure there's something out there that should make the process easier. I tried looking online but I haven't found many that really fit my needs (most of the resources here seem more targeted towards creating your own init.lua, and Luadev plugin's commands are all broken (:Luadev-RunLine and any other command keeps telling me I got some trailing space). I'm really just looking to see how to make a snippet library, but there doesn't seem to be much that helps me. If someone could let me know how they debug their plugin or point me to any external resources, please let me know!

I have no guidance for the first point. For the second, checkout the neovim lua guide or : lua-guide

A quick google search turned up this codeacademy class on learning to program in Javascript. I didn't vet the whole thing, but it appears to assume you know nothing, which is what you need. If you go through that, you can then consume one of the resources that /u/luascriptdev post to equate that back to Lua. Again, the concepts translate.