[kdheepak]

You can also write rust ( or go, or write in any other language that allows you to expose a C ABI ) and make a Lua module. This solves a number of the different, bad and ugly issues in my opinion. For example, I think using rust’s chrono or unicode_segmentation library makes life so much easier than having to deal with that in Lua. Neovim embeds lua 5.1 jit, and it’s possible to write plugins in rust for neovim using this mechanism.

For any one that knows what I’m talking about it should be obvious how to do this. If not, I wrote about this more here, in case you are interested:

https://blog.kdheepak.com/loading-a-rust-library-as-a-lua-mo...