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One little-talked about advantage of Lua support is that you can now write your vim config/scripts in one of the various Lua transpilers like moonscript [0], or maybe even typescript [1]!

[0]: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript

[1]: https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua

[2]: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages

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The first transpiler to mention here would be https://fennel-lang.org/ and https://github.com/Olical/aniseed

I am curious if there are any major packages written in lua for neovim? I wonder if ecosystem fragmentation will become an issue (vimscript vs Lua).

There are replacements for most/many popular packages (that I use at least). Many people do prefer lua packages over vimscript ones.

It will as regular vim is doing vim9script. So it will be legacy vimscript vs lua vs vim9scrpt.

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