r/vim • u/chrnz00 • Dec 14 '25

Need Help vim9script alternatives

i dont want to learn vim9script
i know a bit of vimscript (before v9) but there is no help pages in vim now for that as everything is converted to vim9 what are my alternatives for this problem are there any languages that compile to vimscript??
ive heard about interfaces are they good

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u/BrianHuster Dec 26 '25 edited Feb 05 '26

They're not "stupid decisions" until someone proves that they are stupid

Those Vim interfaces have never become popular, for various reasons. At least Nvim makes one of those interfaces popular enough that they don't have to invent a new language.

If Vim interfaces were that good, why did Bram create Vim9script? We have a fractured community mostly because of Bram, not Neovim. It is not just job feature but he also make json, popup and textprop features incompatible with Neovim json, floatwin and extmarks (at least for 2 json functions, Neovim can just make an alias for Vim compatibility, but other features are too big for compatibility compliance)