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I've been a Neovim user since inception -- I love the sane default configuration, the pruning away of old and obsolete "compatible" mode things, and the async and terminal support were killer features. When LSP support landed I was pretty firmly set.

I hate Lua, though, and more and more of the neovim ecosystem is moving in that direction. And now that vim has caught up on the async and terminal and LSP support I'm finding it hard to justify staying on neovim, except for the burden of sane-ifying my configuration.

VimL9 looks fantastic though -- VimScript has always been awkward but very domain-specific; VimL9 moves away from awkwardness but keeps the domain-specificity. Lua is not domain-specific enough, and the debugging and documentation are not good enough for me to pick it up in a pinch.

I think it's likely that I'll be making the switch back to vim9 in the near future, although I'll probably give Kakoune a try again before committing.




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