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Re:Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim s... by CGamesPlay on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:44PM (#21959684)
But according to the README, the new language is syntactically incompatible with the old VimScript. So you can’t reuse those extensions, they have to be rewritten.
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Re:Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim s... by grok2 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:18AM (#21977133)
Yeah, I didn't notice that. If that is the case, then perhaps there is no purpose in creating a new language. Perhaps the only benefit to creating the new language could be that it might be a little easier to mechanically convert from the existing VimScript to the new style VimScript they are thinking of.
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