Vim After 15 Years

Re:Vim After 15 Years by mollerhoj on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:55AM (#33353685)

I recently setup neovim with lsp, fzf and like 10 plugins in pure lua. I was surprised that it took me just a few hours. I've spent too much time fighting viml in the past and it kept me from looking at the config for like 3 years. But holy f, things have gotten soo much better. Lua for vim is.. actually good. Like I grok the apis.

I know what its like to be burnt but messing with config, but man I cannot recommend kitty + neovim highly enough. It's absolutely AMAZING.

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Re:Vim After 15 Years by radiKal07 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:05AM (#33353750)

I also use kitty + neovim. I highly agree.

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Re:Vim After 15 Years by checkyoursudo on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:54AM (#33354124)

I've been a heavy vim user for I don't even know how long. What does neovim get me over vim? Looking at the charter page on the website, the only thing that really stands out to me is Lua.

"Deliver a first-class Lua/LuaJIT scripting alternative to Vimscript." The rest seem fine but not really a reason to switch, and I don't know Lua so I'm not sure that's a reason either.

Is this the main reason? Are there other good reasons?

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Re:Vim After 15 Years by pmoriarty on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:17AM (#33354274)

You could script plain old vim in Lua long before NeoVim existed.

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Re:Vim After 15 Years by radiKal07 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:11AM (#33356358)

Lua is the only difference but it makes all the difference. From my understanding, Lua is nicer than Vimscript, this means more people will create more interesting and better Lua plugins, that can only be used in neovim. LuaJIT is also fast.

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Re:Vim After 15 Years by Izkata on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:37AM (#33359214)

vim does support python plugins, not just vimscript...

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