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A comment on Learn Vim (2021).

Re:Learn Vim (2021) by samdcbu on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:26PM (#34933179)
No one should be learning Vimscript at this point. That language should have died a long time ago.

A new user coming to the Vim ecosystem in 2023 would be best served by using Neovim with Lua.

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Re:Learn Vim (2021) by lachlan_gray on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:35PM (#34933247)
Vimscript is still really great for making edits and automating odd little things. I find it especially useful for refactoring
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Re:Learn Vim (2021) by Scarbutt on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:46PM (#34933308)
you still need to know vimscript for extending with lua.
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Re:Learn Vim (2021) by elteto on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:07AM (#34934086)
Vim now has vim9 script which is fully integrated and is actually very pleasant to use. It’s like a watered down TypeScript.
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Re:Learn Vim (2021) by silver-arrow on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:05PM (#35004436)
Vim9script is pretty darn good; and fun to use.
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