Yeah, I contributed to Denite and have talked to shougo about Denite as an inspiration for telescope.

It's a great project. I just added a note (which is the least I can do for the projects) here: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/commit/d466...

I think Denite doesn't get as much attention because it doesn't have sane defaults and instead requires you to configure everything yourself using a somewhat... peculiar configuration system. It's also known for sometimes breaking your workflow because why not.

I know I ignored it for a long time before I finally decided rolling up my sleeves in order to make it usable. I use it these days and am fairly satisfied, but there are still sharp corners which introduce friction continually because I dread having to investigate how to configure it.

It felt like an insane amount of friction, with a generous helping of “If you don’t grok this natively then it isn’t for you”. The fact that no attempt was made to preset a cohesive set of defaults since that should be “trivial” was a real speed-bump and turnoff.

I used to use Unite and Shougo's plugin manager, but his lack of communication or documentation, as well as just kind of abandoning projects when he felt like it, makes me no longer comfortable using his stuff.

Denite resolves Unite's problems. https://github.com/Shougo/denite.nvim

happy vim8 + Denite user here!, Telescope seems great as well can't wait to try it out eventually with nvim!

I haven’t checked out Denite yet. I’ve been using Unite, and I understand Denite is supposed to be better, but also requires you to do all of the configuration yourself.