lua and neovimWhy Lua? Neovim has an embedded lua 5.1 runtime which is used to create faster and more powerful extensions of your favorite editor. In the Neovim charter, it lists one of its goals as developing a first-class lua scripting alternative to VimL. One of the reasons for doing this is that VimL is a slow interpreted language with almost no optimizations. Much of the time spent in vim startup and in ac
