Vimconf.live: Why is Lua a good fit for Neovim

A talk about the language design and principles of Lua and why it fits so well for Neovim as a scripting language.

[ameertaweel]

I thought that Lua is a weird choice at the beginning and I really wanted to know more, very nice and informative talk, answered all my questions. Thank you!

[drewad]

I stopped watch at 1-indexed... Jk, still a fantastic video three years later

[solomonxie]

awesome presentation with lookatme! Before I saw the command, i thought it's a legit keynote!

[twenty-fifth]

I am learning Lua for Defold and Neovim, but it feels like a more efficient Python, my first language along with Ruby.

Sometimes, Less IS more.

[namesame]

How do you render your markdown as presentation? Thanks for the presentation, Also, what is the future of luaJIT? I believe the project is dead (in the sense that its stuck at Lua 5.1).

[ironmanlifts]

I'm looking forward to porting my 10, 000 lines of vimscript to lua :D. I think lua makes sense if you're using algorithms or processing lots of text but how can I benefit from calling the api for mapping keys and doing simple things? I think that porting is on a case by case bases.... Unless using the lua api is way faster with mapping keys etc..than normal vimscript. I'm just using key mapping as an example, I could have said append, set, or anything else... now map function, filter, etc.., that could benefit in lua if you had alot to process.. by map I mean run a function on multiple items. map(long_list, {_, f-> do lots of stuff})

[abdelazizsbaai]

cool video ! What is this tool you're using for slide shows ?

[ackz]

I hate Vimscript, I hope that I'll be able to rewrite all my configs to Lua soon

[diogosoares]

I am new to neovim. Is Lua better for config than vimscript? Is there any difference other than the syntax?

[russellchido]

vim 9 to have a new language with types?! WHY?! Sounds like an absolute waste of time when you already have luajit, or even just lua.

[threesidecreaters]

Which program are you using for this presentation

[tobias-edwards]

Font is way too small to view this on mobile

[Ericelrojo]

Why Lua is not a good choice for neovim: Neovim uses luajit not the normal lua interpreter and luajit uses version 5.1 of lua that is a version of Lua from 2006 that has not been updated for a long time is a dead project, lua as a first-class citizen lenguage means breaking the compability with multiple Vim plugins because vimscript is not going to be updated in Neovim, it is not a very portable programming language while Vim having its own language made in C is available in many more platforms, it makes configuring the Vim api more complicated and adds extra code that could be unnecessary.

[Grazfather]

They really should make 'smartLua' which is 0-indexed, of course implying that whoever chose to make normal Lua 1 indexed must have been smoking crack