Re:Vim After 15 Years
by alwillis on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:49PM
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Nobody lives entirely in terminal these days; but terminals have gotten much nicer.
Running Neovim in something like WezTerm, Kitty or Alacrity is closer to what it was like to use a GUI version of Vim (like MacVim) not too long ago.
Full-color support, full OpenType support (like ligatures), built-in multiplexing at least in WezTerm, in a fast, GPU-accelerated UI.
Neovim's support for the same LSPs as VS Code + support for Treesitter.
+1 for LSP-Zero, which makes configuring LSPs and linters trivially easy for Neovim.
I'm not suggesting that you or anyone else should use Neovim instead of VS Code, but I've certainly read enough blog posts about TypeScript and Rust developers moving from VS Code or IntelliJ to Neovimn for a variety of reasons. I've seen Neovim core developers coding on YouTube and Twitch and they look pretty productive to me.
I've attempted to use VS Code; it usually starts okay but doesn't end well and I go back to Neovim.
Neovim hasn't made it to version 1.0 but so far, it's on the right track and I love the vibe of the Neovim community.
Running Neovim in something like WezTerm, Kitty or Alacrity is closer to what it was like to use a GUI version of Vim (like MacVim) not too long ago.
Full-color support, full OpenType support (like ligatures), built-in multiplexing at least in WezTerm, in a fast, GPU-accelerated UI.
Neovim's support for the same LSPs as VS Code + support for Treesitter.
+1 for LSP-Zero, which makes configuring LSPs and linters trivially easy for Neovim.
I'm not suggesting that you or anyone else should use Neovim instead of VS Code, but I've certainly read enough blog posts about TypeScript and Rust developers moving from VS Code or IntelliJ to Neovimn for a variety of reasons. I've seen Neovim core developers coding on YouTube and Twitch and they look pretty productive to me.
I've attempted to use VS Code; it usually starts okay but doesn't end well and I go back to Neovim.
Neovim hasn't made it to version 1.0 but so far, it's on the right track and I love the vibe of the Neovim community.