Excerpts from Linda W's message of Wed Jan 18 01:17:00 +0100 2012:
> The other languages would HURT vim scripting -- in so much that MANY 
> tasks can be done in a 'one-liner' (in vim as well, just very 
> different)...that would be impossible in javascript, python or ruby.  
> They are not concise languages.
Depends on the level of abstraction. You can write a VimL interpreter in
JavaScript - so it would be possible. And that's the difference.

That JS is not perfect is well known. That's why dialects like
"coffeescript" have been written.

I agree that this "request" is orthogonal to your thread.
Conclusion: Either I have time to implement JS backend - or I don't.
So I'm likely to improve the async interface first.

Not many other people think its worth the effort. I had to ask the
community.

> I knew the same bug was in Javascript syntax (.. I scanned the other vim
> files for the same pattern.
:-) and still those syntax files did get their job done that well than
nobody fixed it. Looks like they were just "good enough".

Marc Weber

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