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# What is Vim9?
-This is an experimental side of [Vim](https://github.com/vim/vim).
-It explores ways of making Vim script faster and better.
+This is a new syntax for Vim script that was introduced with Vim 9.0.
+It intends making Vim script faster and better.
-WARNING: The Vim9 script features are still under development, anything can
-break!
# Why Vim9?
## 1. FASTER VIM SCRIPT
The third item on the poll results of 2018, after popup windows and text
-properties, is faster Vim script. So how do we do that?
+properties, both of which have been implemented, is faster Vim script.
+So how do we do that?
I have been throwing some ideas around, and soon came to the conclusion
that the current way functions are called and executed, with
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ we can gain, and also that Vim script can be faster than builtin
interfaces.
LuaJit is much faster at Lua-only instructions. In practice the script would
-not do something useless as counting but change the text. For example,
+not do something useless counting, but change the text. For example,
reindent all the lines:
``` vim