On 12-Jul-2011 00:33, Marc Weber wrote: > [...] the long running future of Vim should not be VimL anymore > because people have to learn it. Most people can already write some JS > .. And JS won't die cause its standard in webbrowsers. Its as simple > as that.
IMO most of the complexity is due to the Vim API, not VimL itself. So, unless you completely redesign the API (and that probably means changing much of the core Vim implementation as well), you won't gain that much. With Vim 7, VimL has gained many "modern" features like Lists, Dicts, etc. Granted, not as clean and nice as other, general-purpose languages, but I still like the easy path from macros to writing custom mappings, and finally you've become a Vim script writer. With any other built-in language, the gap between "using Vim" and "scripting Vim" would probably be larger. So, for me, I'd like to keep VimL (and the many extension languages that are / can be supported by Vim). -- regards, ingo -- 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
