Rick Woo wrote： > I personally don't think it is worthwile to have yet another language > embedded into Vim. > > Then why put lua, perl, python 2 and 3 and tcl in Vim. > Why phper can't have right or fun like them??? > As I know, even Vim website use php. > Just let php can use like python in vim. > > Phper is very big community, is good for vim and phper. > Hope you can do this for phper! Thanks! >
As a java developer, can I ask why java can't use like python in vim ? Javaer is the biggest community, is good for vim and javaer. As a c# developer, can I ask why c# can't use like python in vim ? CSharper is the 6th biggest community (TIOBE), is good for vim and csharper. ..... If every body ask to support their favorite language in vim, the code size will bloat and soon will be out of control. Introducing a new feature is cheaper than maintaining it. Would you please just learn some VimScript ? It is very similar to php. If you want to extend your vim, spending 2-3 days in vimscript is worthy and enough. Why we need python here ? Python is a general purpose language which has countless modules/packages. Most of time, we don't need write a DLL/so in C++ like the old days. Now we can use python to achieve same thing, like calling foreign languages/DLLs, threading, networking, databases ..... Why we need lua here ? Lua got a flexible syntax, can use less code to do the samething than vimscript and run faster than python and vimscript, most important thing it is very tiny. What benefit can vim get if we embed another new language right now ? except making some people who don't want to study new things happy ? I don't write much python code too, I am not a python developer either. But when I need to extend my vim, I can study python and vimscript as well. Even if vim support php, nobody can use only php to write plugin without fully understand vimscript. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
