I have been using https://github.com/eraserhd/parinfer-rust , it can take time to install because it requires Rust and friends but once working, it works very well.

I'm thinking that maybe auto-pairs and vim-sexp were stepping on each other's toes?

that’s very possible

yeah, looks like that was the problem... so far vim-sexp on clojure and auto-pairs in markdown and simple JS works fine 😁

Hm I didn’t know that vim supported importing native libraries

what do you mean “import native libraries”?

usually that means using plugins with machine code, instead of instructions for a hosted interpreter

which historically is rare (maybe not possible?) in vim

Yeah, but if it weren’t possible in Vim then all the calls to parinfer functionality would have to invoke a subprocess (like vim-fzf). I think that that would negate most of the perf benefits of the rust impleimentation