vim-startuptime VS nvim-lua-guide

That is native and inbuild but I would suggest below options instead 1. Using lazy's Profile tab instead https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim 2. Using a dedicated plugin to do this https://github.com/dstein64/vim-startuptime. 3. Using an external program hyperfine is one that I use https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

This plugin https://github.com/dstein64/vim-startuptime

dstein64/vim-startuptime (which I never use, my startup time is under 130ms, which is sufficient)

Use the plugin with the flag --tries 100. Also, what are the first 10 lines of output from running the above command? I'll start.

only today I tried this plug to test startup time and got this result:

dstein64/vim-startuptime: ⏲️ A Vim plugin for profiling Vim's startup time.

Using vim-startuptime to profile, I get these startup numbers on an Apple M1 Macbook:

Oh sorry, I already solved my issue but forgot to delete the post! But to answer your question: Of course! It's https://github.com/dstein64/vim-startuptime. You can either launch nvim with nvim --startuptime outputfile.log FILENAME to get detailed diagnostics in the file outputfile.log or just call :StartupTime after nvim/vim has started up to get this graph. It's pretty neat and easy to use!

You could try to install this plugin temporarily : https://github.com/dstein64/vim-startuptime

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.