Lua, especially with LuaJIT, is nearly as fast as C. I certainly don't want to have to run a slow language like Ruby or especially a full blown JS runtime like V8 just to run Vim, the entire point is speed and keyboard ergonomics, otherwise just use VSCode.

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comex 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

V8 is faster than LuaJIT. But sure, it has a large binary size.

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freedomben 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Quite a fair point! For intensive plugins and such, this would matter quite a bit.

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user3939382 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Babashka! Super fast clojure/lisp.

	▲	zem 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		there's always fennel for a lispy layer over lua

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lloeki 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't LuaJIT kind of a dead end?

Also Ruby has been getting quite fast since YJIT (and now ZJIT):

https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/