plugin support for other scripting languages

[eaves-dropper]

What system are you running Yazi on?

Linux Wayland

What terminal are you running Yazi in?

kitty 0.45.0 created by Kovid Goyal

yazi --debug output

Yazi
    Version: 26.1.22 (Nixpkgs 2026-01-22)
    Debug  : false
    Triple : x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (linux-x86_64)
    Rustc  : 1.92.0 (ded5c06c 2025-12-08)

Ya
    Version: 26.1.22 (Nixpkgs 2026-01-22)

Config
    Init             : /home/batmancool/.config/yazi/init.lua (No such file or directory (os error 2))
    Yazi             : /home/batmancool/.config/yazi/yazi.toml (2713 chars)
    Keymap           : /home/batmancool/.config/yazi/keymap.toml (14743 chars)
    Theme            : /home/batmancool/.config/yazi/theme.toml (38911 chars)
    VFS              : /home/batmancool/.config/yazi/vfs.toml (No such file or directory (os error 2))
    Package          : /home/batmancool/.config/yazi/package.toml (No such file or directory (os error 2))
    Dark/light flavor: "" / ""

Emulator
    TERM                : Some("xterm-kitty")
    TERM_PROGRAM        : None
    TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION: None
    Brand.from_env      : Some(Kitty)
    Emulator.detect     : Emulator { kind: Left(Kitty), version: "kitty(0.45.0)", light: false, csi_16t: (12, 24), force_16t: false }

Adapter
    Adapter.matches    : Kgp
    Dimension.available: Dimension { rows: 42, columns: 159, width: 1908, height: 1008 }

Desktop
    XDG_SESSION_TYPE           : Some("wayland")
    WAYLAND_DISPLAY            : Some("wayland-1")
    DISPLAY                    : None
    SWAYSOCK                   : None
    HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE: Some("dd220efe7b1e292415bd0ea7161f63df9c95bfd3_1769661118_1379158696")
    WAYFIRE_SOCKET             : None

SSH
    shared.in_ssh_connection: false

WSL
    WSL: false

Variables
    SHELL              : Some("/run/current-system/sw/bin/nu")
    EDITOR             : Some("hx")
    VISUAL             : Some("hx")
    YAZI_FILE_ONE      : None
    YAZI_CONFIG_HOME   : None
    YAZI_ZOXIDE_OPTS   : None
    FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS   : None
    FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND: None

Text Opener
    default     : Some(OpenerRule { run: "${EDITOR} \"$@\"", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "", for: None, spread: true })
    block-create: Some(OpenerRule { run: "${EDITOR} \"$@\"", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "", for: None, spread: true })
    block-rename: Some(OpenerRule { run: "${EDITOR} \"$@\"", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "", for: None, spread: true })

Multiplexers
    TMUX               : false
    tmux version       : No such file or directory (os error 2)
    tmux build flags   : enable-sixel=Unknown
    ZELLIJ_SESSION_NAME: None
    Zellij version     : No such file or directory (os error 2)

Dependencies
    file          : 5.45
    ueberzugpp    : No such file or directory (os error 2)
    ffmpeg/ffprobe: 8.0.1 / 8.0.1
    pdftoppm      : 25.10.0
    magick        : 7.1.2-12
    fzf           : 0.67.0
    fd/fdfind     : 10.3.0 / No such file or directory (os error 2)
    rg            : 15.1.0
    chafa         : 1.18.0
    zoxide        : 0.9.8
    7zz/7z        : 25.01 / 17.05
    resvg         : 0.46.0
    jq            : 1.8.1

Clipboard
    wl-copy/paste: 2.2.1 / 2.2.1
    xclip        : No such file or directory (os error 2)
    xsel         : No such file or directory (os error 2)

Routine
    `file -bL --mime-type`: text/plain


See https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/plugins/overview#debugging on how to enable logging or debug runtime errors.

Describe the question

@sxyazi Will you ever support other scripting languages like nushell, python, bash, etc. ?

Anything else?

No response

Checklist

• I have read all the documentation
• I have searched the existing discussions/issues

[sxyazi]

No plans to support other languages since doing so would require re-implementing all existing Lua APIs in the new language, and that would be a huge amount of work, and I don't have the bandwidth to maintain bindings for any more languages beyond the current Lua.

However, Yazi provides DDS, so in theory you can call Yazi's functionality from other languages via IPC, and the Yazi CLI also offers commands like ya pub, ya emit, and ya sub to publish messages to Yazi, emit commands to be executed, and subscribe to Yazi's internal events.