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Re:Vim gets support Lua and the latest versions of Perl and ... by cturner on Friday August 20, 2010 @11:10AM (#1620586)
Bit of an oversight :) Has anyone done interesting stuff using scripts other than vimscript with recent versions? I played with the python interface when it was first supported many releases back and found it hacky and also slow.
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Re:Vim gets support Lua and the latest versions of Perl and ... by compay on Friday August 20, 2010 @12:33PM (#1620835)
Command-T is a pretty popular new plugin for selecting files in and below your current directory; it makes heavy use of the Ruby interface.

http://github.com/wincent/Command-T

It also uses a small C extension to Ruby for speed, because for this particular scenario Ruby is a bit too slow to be comfortable.

Since Lua is so lightweight and fast, I think it should be an alternative worth considering in situations like this one, since it offers a reasonable compromise between the speed of C and the comfort of a high-level language like Ruby or Python.

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