Marc Weber schrieb am 12.01.2012 um 09:58 (+0100): > > I think the main proponents of vim's syntax are a small minority of > > those who have mastery of such arcana. That doesn't bode well for > > usability and convenience. > I totally agree on this. > > I'd like to throw away > - VimL (using JavaScript instead) > - the regex (using perl's instead)
JavaScript is inferior to Perl for handling text, and that matters for text editor integration. Also, JS syntax looks clean (and I do like it); but there's all the quirks (see Douglas Crockford's pages), and that quirkiness does take time to learn, too. > Why JavaScript? v8 jits, thus its blazing fast. Every developer is > doing some kind of web development thus known JavaScript. I'm into web dev myself, but I don't think everyone is. Web makes a lot of noise so it's easy to get that impression, though. If another language, what about the smallest, cleanest and fastest? http://luajit.org/ Is LuaJIT really faster than every other JIT-ed dynamic languages? http://stackoverflow.com/q/2588071/269126 -- Michael Ludwig -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
