What’s the benefit of converting it all to Lua? Seems to be much harder to do simple config since it really isn’t designed for that. I can see it being useful for writing plugins, but for user configs, it seems weird. Performance isn’t even that critical in these cases.
Would love to get some info on this :)
In my case it was just a procrastination project anyways, I used nvim through NvChad for a long while.
I switched to VSCode due to the ease to install extensions and language related stuff, but it never felt quite right, specially the UI. It had a lot of stuff that bugged me and it felt a little overwhelming for me, considering I’m still a beginner when it comes to development. Also even though memory usage isn’t an issue for me, seeing a code editor using over 300MB of RAM was just sad to see. So I decided to come back. Stupid reasons, I know.
But, since I was already doing so, I thought it was a fun project to try to rewrite my old init.vim as much as I could in lua (even though I know nothing of Lua lol), and in the end I managed to do so (and it turned out pretty well, I’d say), so hurray.
Stupid reasons, I know.
Not at all lol. I really like the highly configurable feel of (neo)vim, the nice community around it, with its many plugins, and ofc the vim-style workflow. Not eating up my computer’s resources (even though it is a quite powerful laptop) is important to me, not only because it is indeed sad to see such consumption, but also because that consumption drain battery faster.
and in the end I managed to do so (and it turned out pretty well, I’d say), so hurray.
It does look good indeed! I had a wrong (most likely outdated) idea of the Lua API, but I have to say it is rather nice looking :P
Might consider something like this, idk. This API is certainly pretty interesting, and I think neovim hit quite the spot with having it, because now you can have plugins that really benefit from a language that works really well for this purpose and an existing ecosystem of interpreters, runtimes, packages, etc. Stuff like telescope.vim (which is just amazing) wouldn’t be possible, or at least pretty unfeasible, with just vimscript.
i personally hate using
endif,endfunction,endforeverywhere, it just looks so uglyI guess I never really used that for my user configs. But yeah, I can see it being useful for more complicated scripts.
One time I’ve tried to do it and it is not fun. I guess I’ll stick with pleb
init.vimfor now.
