Why do Neovim users actively seek out lua rewrites?

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  • nvim-surround

    Add/change/delete surrounding delimiter pairs with ease. Written with :heart: in Lua.

  • I use mini.surround but they are others like nvim-surround

  • impatient.nvim

    Discontinued Improve startup time for Neovim

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  • vim-surround

    surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease

  • Apparently that's because I followed this step from the documentation page:

  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  • Hmm, I checked. It was planned, and was implemented, but then scrapped, except for the AST parser component of it. That's unfortunate

  • neorepl.nvim

    Neovim REPL for lua and vim script

  • There is ongoing work around this. Check out https://github.com/ii14/neorepl.nvim

  • nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  • Sorry, but this is not true for almost anyone. That was a bug when it occurred (I believe you are referring to this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/128959) but that has been fixed and closed since 0.5 so maybe you are talking about something else. The neovim wiki links this repo https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide which says Neovim embeds LuaJIT 2.1.0, which is compatible although distinct from 5.1. Anyone not running LuaJIT (unintentionally) should visit the issues page and see about reporting it. You are correct in that there is a build target for Lua as well as LuaJIT, but unless you specifically set some build flags to force it to prefer building Lua 5.1, it will build LuaJIT. You have to be trying hard to make it do otherwise. Without LuaJIT, Neovim's testing library doesn't even function, as is documented in the CMakeLists.txt.

  • nvim-lua-guide

    Discontinued A guide to using Lua in Neovim

  • Sorry, but this is not true for almost anyone. That was a bug when it occurred (I believe you are referring to this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/128959) but that has been fixed and closed since 0.5 so maybe you are talking about something else. The neovim wiki links this repo https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide which says Neovim embeds LuaJIT 2.1.0, which is compatible although distinct from 5.1. Anyone not running LuaJIT (unintentionally) should visit the issues page and see about reporting it. You are correct in that there is a build target for Lua as well as LuaJIT, but unless you specifically set some build flags to force it to prefer building Lua 5.1, it will build LuaJIT. You have to be trying hard to make it do otherwise. Without LuaJIT, Neovim's testing library doesn't even function, as is documented in the CMakeLists.txt.

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