I rewrote my Vim config in Lua. Was it worth it?

Haven't you heard? All the cool kids these days are configuring their Neovim in Lua. I recently ditched my ancient Vim script configuration and rewrote the entire thing in Lua. Was it worth it? Should you do the same? Or is it just a bunch of marketing hype? Find out if it's finally time to say goodbye to your init.vim and create an init.lua in this video...

My dotfiles: https://github.com/ericmurphyxyz/dotfiles ThePrimeagen's init.lua: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/init.lua

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0:00 Intro 0:15 Why Lua? 4:17 Lua basics 6:19 Setting options in Lua 8:18 Setting a leader key (and global variables) 10:04 Setting keybindings in Lua 11:48 Sourcing different files with require 13:48 Loading Vim plugins in Lua 17:00 Was it worth it? 17:41 Additional resources 18:11 Conclusion ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NSZsPjIzvg