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Radiation is a new Vim plugin in the early stages of deelopment. Originally implemented in Ruby then C, after complete refactoring of the architecture, the current implementation is written in Haskell and is far more robust than ever before.

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What is Radiation?

Radiation is a plugin that gives Vim active and dynamic syntax highlighting to C++, C, and JavaScript file types. This allows the syntax of each source file to change with the content of that file.

Why use Radiation?

1. Radiation is fast.

   • I have tried other plugins for this same problem, but all were too slow for me to use in even a moderately sized code baes stemming from the fact that many of these plugins were implemented in straight VimL or some other scripting language too slow to handle the code.

   • Since the guts of Radiation is implemented as a standalone executable and is implemented in Haskell, which can take advantage of true multithreadding to boost performance. Also, as a stand alone executable if vim is running under the --servername flag, it will operate asynchonously, leaving the user to continue to use Vim while it calculates the extra syntax highlighting.

2. Radiation is not restricted.

   • Since radiation is not tied to the Vim runtime and is implemented in Haskell, there are no restrictions at the language level. THe binary may take full advantage of multi threadding and may also be updated on the fly. No restart required.

3. Radiation is (mostly) seamless

   • A lot of work has gone into architecting the system to be as seamless as possible. This means that you can go on editing your file and radiation will happily crunch away and get back when it's done. This means limited differences to the user (aside from the awesome new highlighting!).

Why not use Radiation

1. Radiation is now a separate binary from Vim and is implemented in a safe language, so segfaults are no longer an issue. However, stability and potential deadlock has been known to occur in some cases. Killing the process is sufficient to halt the deadlock. It is important to be sure of stability before adding Radiation to any auto commands.

2. If you are running a restricted version of Vim. The plugin requires an unrestricted version of vim to run since it executes an external program.

How does it work

1. To install, dowload this repository and run the install script. ./install.sh
2. Once installed, this plugin will allow you to run the command :Radiate. This will add additional synatax highlighting to C++ and C files.

Changes

1. Radiation can now compile for Windows! Still in early stages of testing though.
2. Radiation now uses user-private directories in temporary folders to place files
3. Radiation now uses a caching system to radiate files instantly that were previously radiated
4. Radiation system has been completely overhauled to provide the illusion of asychronisity even without the server feature!