I first came into contact with Vim about 15 years ago.
A few times I uninstalled it and reinstalled it a while later. After a few months I was convinced it was the best text editor I had ever seen.
I only noticed how much value it had when I wrote scripts in vimrc myself and changed plugins/menu.
Still, I had to get used to Vimscript. A whole new language, not something similar I already knew.
However, I got completely excited when I understood that I could write scripts in Lua and Python.
Why? Because it was not easy to get used to Vimscript and the help I asked on internet sites was rarely answered.
Anyway, I did benefit from the vim_use group but I noticed that I found solutions faster writing in Python.
I knew the language better and there was a huge amount of information online.
Now I recently read on Reddit that there would be some changes in Vim9 and not everyone thought it was a good idea.
Vimscript is going to change in Vim9 to make Vim respond faster. That's a good idea, although Vim is fast enough for me. The fastest editor I've ever seen.
Reading further I read that Vim9 will be without its Python/Lua interface.
That is really a pity.
Instead of removing the Python and Lua interface, why not integrate them even more?
It would be great if we could search in Vim with python regex.
Even if we could program the user input in python code.
People often already know Python and Lua. I think it will bring a much larger amount of users to Vim.
Is it true that the Python and Lua interface will disappear?
-- A few times I uninstalled it and reinstalled it a while later. After a few months I was convinced it was the best text editor I had ever seen.
I only noticed how much value it had when I wrote scripts in vimrc myself and changed plugins/menu.
Still, I had to get used to Vimscript. A whole new language, not something similar I already knew.
However, I got completely excited when I understood that I could write scripts in Lua and Python.
Why? Because it was not easy to get used to Vimscript and the help I asked on internet sites was rarely answered.
Anyway, I did benefit from the vim_use group but I noticed that I found solutions faster writing in Python.
I knew the language better and there was a huge amount of information online.
Now I recently read on Reddit that there would be some changes in Vim9 and not everyone thought it was a good idea.
Vimscript is going to change in Vim9 to make Vim respond faster. That's a good idea, although Vim is fast enough for me. The fastest editor I've ever seen.
Reading further I read that Vim9 will be without its Python/Lua interface.
That is really a pity.
Instead of removing the Python and Lua interface, why not integrate them even more?
It would be great if we could search in Vim with python regex.
Even if we could program the user input in python code.
People often already know Python and Lua. I think it will bring a much larger amount of users to Vim.
Is it true that the Python and Lua interface will disappear?
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