I recently rewrote my Neovim configuration in Lua in order to take advantage of a more intuitive programming language for configuration, Lua-only plugins, and powerful Neovim-only features such as: The built in LSP: Language Server Protocol, IDE features like “show docs”, “find references”, “rename”, and “go to definition” for basically any language. Treesitter: Powerful parsing of any programming language, which means plugins and syntax highlighting can make powerful and accurate transformations.