[jdonaldson]

I wrote a fairly sophisticated build system for Haxe in vim. https://github.com/jdonaldson/vaxe

Some of the config basics are the same. You check for file type, and then set some overrides for make commands. Plugins provide asynchronous compilation, error listing/highlighting. The worst part of working with vim tooling is vimscript, hands down.

Neovim is making nice strides towards modernizing vim interfaces and support, and providing Lua as a vimscript replacement.

https://neovim.io