Table Mode in Lua

[max397574]

https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode

this in lua

[matu3ba]

Can you come up with a short motivation what porting it to lua gives as advantage (ie a use case where that less input delay etc is essential or complicated stuff, ie formulas, are useful to do)?
Performance- doesnt scale ideal in neovim due to underlying memory structure limiting editing performance on very long lines, so something crazy like excel-like wont work in neovim.