What is the benefit of writing plugins in Lua rather than any other language?

• MessagePack

  22 1,377 8.1 Java

  MessagePack serializer implementation for Java / msgpack.org[Java]

  

I definitely don't want to program in vimscript but as I understand it, there "MessagePack structured communication enables extensions in any language".

• pynvim

  12 1,439 7.6 Python

  Python client and plugin host for Nvim

  

Here's the GitHub project for the api: https://github.com/neovim/pynvim.

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• libuv

  75 23,219 9.1 C

  Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

  

No you can't. The event loops in Vim and Neovim are different. Neovim uses https://libuv.org/ with https://luvit.io/ So the event loop itself is lua. And it is not exposed to vimscript (as far as I know)

• benchmarks

  40 2,741 7.2 Makefile

  Some benchmarks of different languages

Do you have a source for LuaJit being faster than compiled languages? https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

• lua-languages

  13 555 3.9

  Languages that compile to Lua

You can find a rather extensive list here, with maybe Castl the closest to JS?

• luajit2

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  OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2

  

luajit.org said

• Fennel

  90 2,281 9.1 Fennel

  Lua Lisp Language

Frankly, would have preferred plain old JS which is far more a neutral language compared to Lua. But I guess there was no embeddable QuickJS https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html at the time the Neovim project was started. Thankfully there is stuff like https://fennel-lang.org/ around

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