Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and no dependencies too)

Re:Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and... by sicher on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:52AM (#21289214)

I suspect the reason they stick to 5.1 is because that's what LuaJIT supports.

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Re:Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and... by xvilka on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:08AM (#21289511)

LuaJIT basically dead, it's like if PyPy would forever stuck just to Python 2 support.

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Re:Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and... by ashkankiani on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:59AM (#21290269)

Without Mike Pall, it won't be progressing as quickly, but it's definitely not dead. It can still fill a niche as a best in class embedded language thanks to its amazing JIT. It's used in Redis, mpv, neovim, and a lot of other very popular software projects.

However, I'm hoping to learn more about the internals of the JIT to see if I can take up some of the effort in progressing it. I have a very deep interest in Luajit for some reason. As long as people like me exist, it's not dead.

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Re:Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and... by petre on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:48AM (#21289698)

Not dead, just mature. Also has a fork and it's used in other projects.

https://github.com/raptorjit/raptorjit

Which makes it a very good pick for NeoVim. It basically means that the plugins are basically supported forever without the JIT being a moving target. NeoVim also supports Vimscript as an alternative.

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