Lightning talk: Writing cross-platform editor plugins
summary
Starts as a Vim plugin written in vim script and Ruby to auto-import JS requires then rewrites core in JavaScript because parsing JavaScript in JavaScript is far easier. The core becomes a command-line tool that editors invoke, but startup overhead leads to running a background daemon that accepts JSON IPC, receives full file contents and returns modified contents. Integrations exist for Atom, Vim, Emacs, VS Code and Sublime; performance varies by editor and client startup time.
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