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I use jet brains products, and I spend a fair bit of time in all sorts of flavors and setups in vim. Neovim will let you configure your env to provide 90 perce

I use jet brains products, and I spend a fair bit of time in all sorts of flavors and setups in vim. Neovim will let you configure your env to provide 90 percent of what an ide will do. The 10 percent isnt "missing" its just going to be very different... See how the other half lives and you might find some features you like and bring back home. You might find yourself running vim in pycharm ;)

jiggawatts 3y ago
You really can’t even begin to approach what the IntelliJ tools can do with a mere text editor. You’ll also spend more time tinkering with your Vim plugins than actually coding.
- xcv123 3y ago
  Yep. With IntelliJ you just install the ideavim editor plugin with default settings then get to work. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim Or you can waste months pissing around with Vim plugins to create a poor mans IDE out of sticks and stones like a caveman.
  - Nullabillity 3y ago
    IdeaVim has the usual Vim emulation problem. It does an okay job emulating baseline Vim, but it doesn't emulate your Vim setup, nor does it even try to integrate the rest of IntelliJ in a way that feels native (compared to something like evil-mode). It's clearly not used by either its developers or the people who keep recommending it. It's the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem of text editors.
    - xcv123 3y ago
      My IdeaVim setup is the default and most people just use the default. Obsessing over custom weird Vim configs is for junior devs who enjoy wasting time. I have been using it professionally for 10 years and it integrates well enough. All of the IDE shortcuts are available. No issues.
    - Bjartr 3y ago
      > It's clearly not used by either its developers or the people who keep recommending it. Or, you know, different people have different preferences and are perfectly satisfied with what the emulation does provide.
- jeroenhd 3y ago
  Neovim can be configured to practically become an IDE, complete with code analysis, refactoring tools, and AI assistants. It'll also become as slow as an IDE, though. I think it's the Arch Linux (or maybe the Gentoo) of IDEs, where you have to know and configure every subcomponent of your IDE yourself. I have tweaked my Neovim for small code snippets where a full IDE is overkill, but I can't be bothered to turn it into a full IDE like some others do.
  - pvorb 3y ago
    And that's the USP of JetBrains IDEs. You don't have to spend days to configure your editor/IDE until it works for you. Just pick the right flavor for your favorite language and start working on your actual code.
    - bb88 3y ago
      In honesty, I love pycharm today. 8 years or so ago I didn't so much. Also, goland isn't terrible either. It's really the only way to write go beyond say 1000 lines of code.
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- zer00eyz 3y ago
  As I said I go back and forth between jetbrains products and vim and neovim. As someone who crosses those boundaries I can tell you that you're dead wrong. Im happy to sit down and write code in something like Goland. Im happy to pick pycharm to work on a LARGE python code base. But the moment that I need to deal with a JS spa, legacy code (python, ruby) and go im probably NOT going to pick intelij. Sorry but IntelliJ is just as much plugin nonsense anything else and sometimes your going to go backwards just to get things working: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70729/?_ga=2.164368127.1963206361.1712359015-7907449.1712359015 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70729/?_ga=2.1643681... "tinkering with your vim plugins" is "tinkering with your Intellij plugins"... both involve search engines and RTFM, the former has more choice and a bit more downloading but the transition in either direction would amount to the same loss in productivity. And I have played with VS code as well (and it too has its uses). The only editor I dont like, is Emacs, and not because it is BAD but because you will spend more time tinkering with it than working.
  - xcv123 3y ago
    > "tinkering with your vim plugins" is "tinkering with your Intellij plugins"... both involve search engines and RTFM, the former has more choice and a bit more downloading but the transition in either direction would amount to the same loss in productivity. The OOTB setup for IntelliJ just works. The plugin with the bug you linked to is the "Rainbow Brackets" plugin. That is created by a third party and it is a useless toy plugin, not required for professional development. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets Why would you be pissing around with that "rainbow brackets" nonsense instead of getting your work done with the OOTB setup that just works? Pointless and irrelevant.
RockRobotRock 3y ago
I might try that, thank you. Would love the best of both worlds

jiggawatts 3y ago

You really can’t even begin to approach what the IntelliJ tools can do with a mere text editor. You’ll also spend more time tinkering with your Vim plugins than actually coding.

xcv123 3y ago
Yep. With IntelliJ you just install the ideavim editor plugin with default settings then get to work. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim Or you can waste months pissing around with Vim plugins to create a poor mans IDE out of sticks and stones like a caveman.
- Nullabillity 3y ago
  IdeaVim has the usual Vim emulation problem. It does an okay job emulating baseline Vim, but it doesn't emulate your Vim setup, nor does it even try to integrate the rest of IntelliJ in a way that feels native (compared to something like evil-mode). It's clearly not used by either its developers or the people who keep recommending it. It's the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem of text editors.
  - xcv123 3y ago
    My IdeaVim setup is the default and most people just use the default. Obsessing over custom weird Vim configs is for junior devs who enjoy wasting time. I have been using it professionally for 10 years and it integrates well enough. All of the IDE shortcuts are available. No issues.
  - Bjartr 3y ago
    > It's clearly not used by either its developers or the people who keep recommending it. Or, you know, different people have different preferences and are perfectly satisfied with what the emulation does provide.
jeroenhd 3y ago
Neovim can be configured to practically become an IDE, complete with code analysis, refactoring tools, and AI assistants. It'll also become as slow as an IDE, though. I think it's the Arch Linux (or maybe the Gentoo) of IDEs, where you have to know and configure every subcomponent of your IDE yourself. I have tweaked my Neovim for small code snippets where a full IDE is overkill, but I can't be bothered to turn it into a full IDE like some others do.
- pvorb 3y ago
  And that's the USP of JetBrains IDEs. You don't have to spend days to configure your editor/IDE until it works for you. Just pick the right flavor for your favorite language and start working on your actual code.
  - bb88 3y ago
    In honesty, I love pycharm today. 8 years or so ago I didn't so much. Also, goland isn't terrible either. It's really the only way to write go beyond say 1000 lines of code.
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zer00eyz 3y ago
As I said I go back and forth between jetbrains products and vim and neovim. As someone who crosses those boundaries I can tell you that you're dead wrong. Im happy to sit down and write code in something like Goland. Im happy to pick pycharm to work on a LARGE python code base. But the moment that I need to deal with a JS spa, legacy code (python, ruby) and go im probably NOT going to pick intelij. Sorry but IntelliJ is just as much plugin nonsense anything else and sometimes your going to go backwards just to get things working: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70729/?_ga=2.164368127.1963206361.1712359015-7907449.1712359015 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70729/?_ga=2.1643681... "tinkering with your vim plugins" is "tinkering with your Intellij plugins"... both involve search engines and RTFM, the former has more choice and a bit more downloading but the transition in either direction would amount to the same loss in productivity. And I have played with VS code as well (and it too has its uses). The only editor I dont like, is Emacs, and not because it is BAD but because you will spend more time tinkering with it than working.
- xcv123 3y ago
  > "tinkering with your vim plugins" is "tinkering with your Intellij plugins"... both involve search engines and RTFM, the former has more choice and a bit more downloading but the transition in either direction would amount to the same loss in productivity. The OOTB setup for IntelliJ just works. The plugin with the bug you linked to is the "Rainbow Brackets" plugin. That is created by a third party and it is a useless toy plugin, not required for professional development. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets Why would you be pissing around with that "rainbow brackets" nonsense instead of getting your work done with the OOTB setup that just works? Pointless and irrelevant.

RockRobotRock 3y ago

I might try that, thank you. Would love the best of both worlds