Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Configuring Neovim With Lua (It's Easy!)" video.

  1. Seeing how convoluted Lua makes the configuration file, I'm absolutely sure I shouldn't use NeoVim. I don't like VimScript, and I have nothing against Lua in general, but as a configuration language, it just doesn't fit. Unless I decide that I need to write something myself, I don't see myself moving away from Vim anytime soon. I also don't get the double standard of disliking long configuration files for Vim but thinking they're okay for Emacs. Your configuration file should be as long as it needs to be, whether that be long or short, it doesn't matter. I don't know why you think it does.
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  2.  rs_  I would wager that Emacs suffers that same issue. However, I'd agree that people should get used to the default experience before they go modifying things. Once they have an idea of how things work, I'd say go wild.
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  3.  rs_  If by behavior you mean keybindings, then yeah, that sounds pretty likely. If a new user just adds a bunch of plugins without thinking about it, I can see that. Good reason to start with the defaults and add slowly from there.
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  4.  rs_  I was referring to the possibility of conflicting plugins. Though, after thinking about it, I bet it's a minor problem since VimScript and elisp both have local variables and most plugins I've seen use them to avoid conflicts.
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  5. @Anees Baloch I'd say if you use Vim, then yeah, but it would be just with Vim. You could kind of use it for other things, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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