Hello folks, I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python installed, or would be free of objections to installing it if a module required it. I'm working on some vim modules, to be released for general use, that are threatening to become pretty complicated, and would prefer to write them in python. Is it likely that this would lock out a significant portion of the vim user population? Is it frowned upon to use external languages in cases where it's not entirely necessary? Python is more or less ubiquitous on linux installs, but I don't feel like I could guess at how many vim users on other platforms would be unable or unwilling to install it.
The modules themselves are relatively general purpose; my motivation to code them in Python stems partly from this very generality: it's advantageous to have that code available outside of the context of vim. I also find that I tend more and more toward a functional programming style that doesn't work particularly well in vimscript. Cheers -Ted -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php