You're right, apologies, I was thinking of the Syntastic/Neomake plugin which both use "VimL" as an identifer, which I had just set up this past weekend and I mistook that as the Vim filetype identifier.
Regardless Wikipedia says:
> Vim script (also called vimscript or VimL) is the scripting language built into Vim.
It's also colloquially referred to VimL across the web.
For those looking for an answer, the 3rd result from googling "VimL" is a question on StackOverflow "Why does VimL suck?" which does a good job of answering my question:
Regardless Wikipedia says:
> Vim script (also called vimscript or VimL) is the scripting language built into Vim.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Vim_(text_editor)#/Vim_script
It's also colloquially referred to VimL across the web.
For those looking for an answer, the 3rd result from googling "VimL" is a question on StackOverflow "Why does VimL suck?" which does a good job of answering my question:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1bf672/why_does_viml_s...