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vim9
Vim Script2020–2025
brammool / vim9 · Archived

vim9

An experimental fork of Vim, exploring ways to make Vim script faster and better.

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What it is

An experimental fork of Vim, exploring ways to make Vim script faster and better.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-01-03 14:19:44 UTC to 2025-01-29 20:54:06 UTC.

012342020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 4 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC440
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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stefanos82·Jan 29, 2025
Vim 9 introduced new vim9script which improved performance by orders of magnitude from old vimscript. You can test those benchmarks yourself from late Bramm's repo README file: https://github.com/brammool/vim9 My results are as follows: Indent time measurements 888890 Vim old: 0.678415 888890 Python: 0.170969 888890 Lua: 0.155279
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888890 Vim new: 0.087310 Sum time measurements: 4499998500000 Vim old: 6.286605 4499998500000 Python: 0.439207 4499998500000 Lua: 0.075501 4499998500000 Vim new: 0.119775 The Lua used here is LuaJIT, not standard Lua!
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