Does Neovim Support VimL 9?

[NEX-S]

Does Neovim Support VimL 9?

[KillTheMule]

Not it doesn’t, and probably won’t (although I can’t find the issue again where that’s stated).

[clason]

Will vim9 be supported?

Definitely no. (Except possibly via an external project like GitHub - tjdevries/vim9jit: Ok, hear me out. vim9script... but in lua... so fast, with some basic hooks in core to allow this to run transparently.)

Will vim9 be supported?

That’s already happening. First, this will of course not immediately delete all legacy vimscript from the Neovim repo, so things will continue working just fine. All it means is that including future changes will become a bit harder as we can’t simply plonk the updated files into our tree. However, the differences are usually fairly superficial so it’s not that hard to make analogous changes manually in our runtime files, even though it’s more work. (In fact, we’ve already been doing that quit…