> While some recent advancements may hint at future changes in that direction, Vim currently lacks everything it would need to be considered/used as an IDE. I

> While some recent advancements may hint at future changes in that direction, Vim currently lacks everything it would need to be considered/used as an IDE. I disagree. Neovim can be considered an IDE with the caveat that you have to configure it as such and use plugins. > From sketchy terminal integration What's so sketchy about it? The terminal integration in both Vim and Neovim are decent, and you can always do Ctrl+z to go back to your "proper" terminal and do whatever. > to being single-threaded Sure, everything isn't multithreaded although you can write asynchronous configurations and plugins. Regardless, Neovim is more than fast enough (and certainly much faster than the comparable IDEs) so I don't see the critique being valid. > via the lack of anything resembling a proper internal plugin API Neovim has a very good API for writing plugins in Lua. > nothing in Vim can be leveraged to give you a convincing Integrated Development Environment. That's just false and ignorant.