What does HackerNews think of vim9jit?
a vim9script -> lua transpiler (written in Rust)
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TJ DeVries (one of the Neovim contributors, and a frequent streamer) was working on some sort of vim9 translation support for Neovim. Seems more like a side project rather than something that will be built into Neovim, though.
That's not necessarily true.
Core maintainer of the Neovim Tjdevries is working on a compatibility layer that would allow vim9 to not only run in Neovim, but likely faster.
TJ (one of neovim's core devs) has already started work on that: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit
Their twitch streams where they work on this are a lot of fun too.
I'll ignore the other parts I disagree with in this post, since it's cool to have different views but I just wanted to post that it may someday be possible to run vim9script plugins in neovim :)
I'm working on a project that might allow at least 90% or higher compat here: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit
Of course, vim9script isn't complete yet, so the spec isn't all the way done, but it may someday be possible to run them in neovim.
Additionally, if someone actually just wanted to port all the C code to run or has some other way to make vim9script run, neovim is not opposed to making that happen.