Vim script - Programming language

Vim script is an open source programming language created in 1991.

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Vim (; a contraction of Vi IMproved) is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy's vi text editor program for Unix. It was written by Bram Moolenaar based on source for a port of the Stevie editor to the Amiga and first released publicly in 1991. Vim is designed for use both from a command-line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 3,544 Vim script repos on GitHub
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 10k users using Vim script in 11k repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Vim script
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Vim script
Learn Vim script on exercism.
See also: (17 related languages) C, Unix, Linux, iOS, Android, vi, Tcl, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Regular Expressions, Gzip, FTP, HTTP, Unicode
104 PLDB concepts link to Vim script: Ad-hoc, ana, Austral, BQN, Bruijn, Bucklescript, C2, Caramel, Carbon, Catala, Céu, Chapel, Ć, Claro, clay, Click, crmsh, Croc, Cryptol, CSpydr, Cyber, Dale, dedukti, Dern, Differential Datalog, Djot, dllup, egel, elymas, Factor, Felix, Flow9, Frundis, GAP, GN, gentee, Gforth, groff, hakaru, HHVM, hobbes, huginn, hurl, icarus, ink-lang, invokator, Jakt, Jank, JFlex, kitlang, kitten, Koka, lambda-zero, Ligo, Lil, Linux, Logica, mal, mirth, Mu, mycroft, mythryl, nesC, newclay, NewLisp, ngn/k, NGS, Ninja, Nit, Node.js, noulith, ObjectScript, Opa, Opal, Oxyl, Pan, penrose, GNU Poke, Pygments, PyTorch, Qore, Quint, Ragel, redprl, RicScript, rosie, Simit, sixten, skip, Semantic Patch Language, Star, Sugar, Swift, truck, V, v8, Vimwiki, Virgil, VLC, Wart, WLambda, xsv-app, xxl, yeti

Example from Riju:

:echo "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

echo "Hello World"

Example from Linguist:

" Name:     Solarized vim colorscheme
" Author:   Ethan Schoonover <es@ethanschoonover.com>
" URL:      http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
"           (see this url for latest release & screenshots)
" License:  OSI approved MIT license (see end of this file)
" Created:  In the middle of the night
" Modified: 2011 May 05
"
" Usage "{{{
"
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
" ABOUT:
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
" Solarized is a carefully designed selective contrast colorscheme with dual
" light and dark modes that runs in both GUI, 256 and 16 color modes.
"
" See the homepage above for screenshots and details.
"
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
" OPTIONS:
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
" See the "solarized.txt" help file included with this colorscheme (in the
" "doc" subdirectory) for information on options, usage, the Toggle Background
" function and more. If you have already installed Solarized, this is available
" from the Solarized menu and command line as ":help solarized"
"
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
" INSTALLATION:
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
" Two options for installation: manual or pathogen
"
" MANUAL INSTALLATION OPTION:
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
"
" 1.  Download the solarized distribution (available on the homepage above)
"     and unarchive the file.
" 2.  Move `solarized.vim` to your `.vim/colors` directory.
" 3.  Move each of the files in each subdirectories to the corresponding .vim
"     subdirectory (e.g. autoload/togglebg.vim goes into your .vim/autoload
"     directory as .vim/autoload/togglebg.vim).
"
" RECOMMENDED PATHOGEN INSTALLATION OPTION:
" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
"
" 1.  Download and install Tim Pope's

Example from Wikipedia:

" This is the Hello World program in Vim script.
echo "Hello, world!"

" This is a simple while loop in Vim script.
let i = 1
while i < 5
  echo "count is" i
  let i += 1
endwhile

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Hexadecimals	✓
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		echo