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I wonder if Neovim wouldn't be an even better option for this. Isn't slimv written in that dreadful extension language for Vim? I may have seen it years ago and don't remember anymore.

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Modern vim also has python, perl, ruby, and lua support in addition to vimscript (taking a quick look at the features in my local vim).

Though the neovim community does go pretty heavy towards lua compared to the traditional vim community.

I know it does, but it's up to the extension's writer to use them properly.

> the neovim community does go pretty heavy towards lua

And that's why I like them.

Fair. My point was more that you didn't have to make a non-portable extension just to use lua.

Is it really non-portable if it can run in plain old Vim as well?

Fennel lisp is pretty popular in the Neovim community, actually.

Then I'm puzzled why it wouldn't be easier to, say, just embed Chez in addition to LuaJIT.

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