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In the end the lua scripting thing is pretty simple … it’s a language that is general purpose though pretty light weight) and used elsewhere for good reasons. So if you want to learn about scripting your editor, with neovim, the language will be something potentially useful elsewhere. With vimscript, that’s not the case.
And maybe it helps for the dev team to not have to maintain a scripting language on top of everything else?
That's coop. I'll try it Can you give me.a quick run down. Like what's it good for?
I’m not equipped to teach you lua, the language, but you’ll find plenty of resources online, including those in the neovim documentation.