Re: neovim and luajit?

[Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, HiPhish wrote:

> I just want to add my 2 cents to the discussion. Officially Neovim supports only
> Lua 5.1 as its extension language according to the manual (`:h lua-intro`):
>
>> The Lua 5.1 language is builtin and always available.
>
> Using LuaJIT allows the use of some extensions to Lua 5.1, but plugins relying
> on this functionality are strictly speaking non-portable because not all users
> might have them. I don't know if it is possible with Guix, but the ideal
> solution would be to use LuaJIT where available and fall back on Lua 5.1
> otherwise.

Yes, I believe that this would be possible, but based on what Efraim says 
it may not even be needed.

> On Sunday, 25 April 2021 09:15:57 CEST Efraim Flashner wrote:
>>
>> Our copy of luajit supports aarch64 so I don't think that's a problem.
>> (Last I checked) Debian has a patch to replace powerpc support with
>> 64-bit ppc support. I'd go ahead with the change if that's the direction
>> that neovim is going and let the powerpc64le people decide between using
>> lua5.1 or just removing lua support on a per-architecture basis for
>> ppc64le.

That does sound promising.

Therefore, I've proposed switching to luajit in #48109

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48109

Thanks for your replies!
Jack