Updates. By Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Replying to twitter.com/chrisheithoff/status/1072095495533854720

I don’t think you have to, as matchit.vim is included in Vim itself since 6.0. Your language plugin should set b:match_words for files of the correct type, so :echo b:match_words should return a list of match words if everything’s set up correctly.