Learning vimscript vs lua

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  • luv

    Bare libuv bindings for lua

  • Then (maybe) this: https://github.com/luvit/luv/blob/master/docs.md

  • nvim-lua-guide

    Discontinued A guide to using Lua in Neovim

  • Then read this: https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide

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  • conjure

    Interactive evaluation for Neovim (Clojure, Fennel, Janet, Racket, Hy, MIT Scheme, Guile, Python and more!)

  • I wouldn't worry too much about that tho. Even with the few resources out there, there's already amazing Lua plugins that don't have (and probably will never have) vimscript equivalents. telescope and conjure come to mind.

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