Lua is the only difference but it makes all the difference. From my understanding, Lua is nicer than Vimscript, this means more people will create more interest

Lua is the only difference but it makes all the difference. From my understanding, Lua is nicer than Vimscript, this means more people will create more interesting and better Lua plugins, that can only be used in neovim. LuaJIT is also fast.