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geenat ◴[] No.41297978[source]
As an extension writer...

Writing extensions in Lua is huge. (Same as OBS) Looks very simple and productive.

It's one of the main reasons I've stuck to Sublime... extending with Python is very easy and works everywhere.

Even if both Zed and VSCode are strong in other areas.. Rust extensions makes me cringe (a build toolchain? ugh..) VSCode's inconsistent undocumented Javascript API is a pain in the butt (paste & pray driven development).

Will be keeping an eye on this.

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1. pjmlp ◴[] No.41299527[source]
Yeah, I always complain about Python lack of JIT, but being extension language is actually a good use for it.

Or Tcl, which I used 20 years ago as for our in-house proxy module for Apache/IIS, extensible in C and Tcl.

Unfortunely out of fashion for anyone besides EDA tooling.