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Re:Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim s... by Gaelan on Saturday January 04, 2020 @04:10AM (#21953832)
> just make a fork where Lua is the default scripting language

If you're not aware, Neovim is just that (although it supports vimscript as well)

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Re:Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim s... by bananamerica on Saturday January 04, 2020 @05:36AM (#21954123)
The fact the Neovim supports vimscript is basically a guarantee that vimscript will never die.

I'm not sure that's a good thing.

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Re:Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim s... by coldtea on Saturday January 04, 2020 @09:25AM (#21955021)
It's also a guarantee that Neovim wont be a niche clone, with very few own extensions and no classic extensions supported tho...
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