On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:10:23PM +0100, Michael Ludwig wrote: > 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.
According to https://code.google.com/p/v8/, V8 runs on Windows (XP or newer), Mac OS X (10.5 or newer), and Linux systems that use IA-32, x64, or ARM processors. This is a small subset of the platforms that Vim is supported on. See :help design-multi-platform. Also, V8 is written in C++ where Vim is C. How well does C++ embed into C? Just building V8 requires Python and SCons. > 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/ Size, hygiene and speed aside, will luajit compile on all the systems that Vim compiles on? -- Erik Falor Registered Linux User #445632 http://linuxcounter.net
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