Re:AstroNvim/AstroNvim: AstroNvim is an aesthetic and featur...
by serial_dev on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:38AM
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These configs have their pros and cons.
I have some vim users in my friend circle, and some switched because they were tired of maintaining their own configs.
However, many who tried these config vim projects spent weeks hunting down performance issues. Some switched back.
Whoever says "it's more stable because it's open source and someone else will track down the issues for you" is just too optimistic and never had any actual issues they had to debug.
Finding an issue in your "home grown" config is thousand times easier as you know your dependencies and you know what they solved. What is easier, finding an issue in a couple of hundred lines of your own code, or finding an issue in thousands of lines of someone else's configs?
I have some vim users in my friend circle, and some switched because they were tired of maintaining their own configs.
However, many who tried these config vim projects spent weeks hunting down performance issues. Some switched back.
Whoever says "it's more stable because it's open source and someone else will track down the issues for you" is just too optimistic and never had any actual issues they had to debug.
Finding an issue in your "home grown" config is thousand times easier as you know your dependencies and you know what they solved. What is easier, finding an issue in a couple of hundred lines of your own code, or finding an issue in thousands of lines of someone else's configs?