Comment by paddy_m
That's a lot of code for a toy project, impressive commitment!
How does the VIM family generally handle extensibility?
Do you have any unique takes there?
I use Emacs, and I get how emacs does it (smallish runtime for text display and lisp interpreter, everything else in lisp).
Hey Paddy. Vim uses horrible vimscrip, neovim - cool lua. I have two idea for plugins: - 1. Rich events system on backend side. e.g. write golang code for plugins, recomplire editor. done. pros: good performance, autocomplete for plugins out-of-the-box. golang. cons: feedback loop is lonfer. recomplier, restart, repeat. - 2. Use lua. pros: fast development cycle. cons: harder to implement. two languages, communication overhead.
I also use Emacs, btw.