Re: Announce: ECMAScript interface for Vim

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:55 PM Andrey Butirsky <butirsky@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/30/19 9:54 PM, Bob Pepin wrote:
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> On 28 Mar 2019, at 15.01, Andrey <butirsky@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thumbs up for any common language support!
> I would love if those languages could be used as much effectively as Vimscript itself for Vim programming.
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> I tried to make all Vim builtins also ES builtins so that simple scripts look almost the same in ES as in Vimscript. Have a look at https://github.com/bobpepin/vim/blob/duktape/runtime/indent/python.js, autogenerated from the corresponding .vim file, https://github.com/bobpepin/vim/blob/duktape/runtime/indent/python.vim.
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> (Caveat: no datatypes requiring automatic memory management can be passed between Vimscript builtins and ES)
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> I am playing around with the asyn/await features from recent ES versions together with Vim channels and events (keyboard input/autocmds) right now, imho it's significantly more effective than Vimscript as soon as callbacks get involved. For a sample JSP implementation, see https://github.com/bobpepin/vim/blob/duktape/src/jsp-jsonrpc.ts.
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> Best,
> Bob
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> Thanks Bob, sounds interesting.
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> Actually, I'm new to Vimscript and just had to lean it while working on my re-make of StlShowFunc plugin.
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> Just curious if the plugin could be easily re-writed on ECMAScript also, could you have a look maybe? :)
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> (e.g., people complained that Python integration is not very elegant, dunno anything about that)

Isn't there a chicken-and-egg problem there somewhere? I mean, Vim
cannot understand ECMAScript except by means of the plugin, so if the
plugin itself were written in ECMAScript, Vim couldn't decipher it,
could it?

Best regards,
Tony.

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