On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 09:20:02PM +0900, Andre Sihera wrote:
> On 12/01/14 18:50, Thiago Padilha wrote:
> >Having support for multiple scripting languages would certainly be useful.
> >
> >One simple way to achieve this would be to follow weechat's take on
> >plugins(http://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_user.en.html#plugins)
> >where each plugin is a dynamic library loaded at startup(eg: dlopen)
> >by vim's core program. This would enable vim to support any language,
> >as adding support to a new language wouldn't require recompiling vim,
> >just add a file to the runtime dir.
> >
> >Each dynamic library can embed its own interpreter and handle
> >converting to/from vim's data structures, and it should also have a
> >initialization function that would be called by vim at startup time.
> >This function could be used for example, to register a vimscript/ex
> >commands for calling the language interpreter(eg: python<<)
> >
> >In any case, this would imply in significant changes in the current
> >way vim works, so good luck getting such a patch to merge in the main
> >code.
> >
> The DLL-style plug-in implementation is how I was imagining
> it.
> Although changes are significant, they could be reduced if we
> implement the default language binding *on top* of the current
> command implementation as opposed to rewriting the current
> command implementation on top of a new language binding
> feature ("smoke and mirrors"...)
all so we could add interpreters without rebuilding vim? Sounds like a
lot of code, a very lot of added complexity and bloat to achieve
something we can already do with a simple rebuild. This particular
voice from the peanut gallery will be voting against it if it ever makes
it that far.
In view of the fact that vim is first and foremost a programmer's
editor, I think the requirement to rebuild so you can use something
other than vimL is akin to telling humans they have to breathe if they
want to continue living.
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