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neovim is what happens when the javascript kids decide to "improve" one of the best editors ever created. The entire Lua ecosystem standing on 50 unstable plugi
by sph 2y ago
neovim is what happens when the javascript kids decide to "improve" one of the best editors ever created. The entire Lua ecosystem standing on 50 unstable plugins that provide the entire kitchen sink, yet do not even have a 1.0 version is nightmarish.
Follow any guide and either everything breaks, or you get an hodgepodge of automagic popups, stuff that autodownloads, flash messages and useless features that are completely antithetical to the slim, minimal philosophy of vim.
At least the original vim is still around, and the js kids are allergic to parens so there's an alternative.
- sgarland 2y agoI am not a JS dev, and still prefer nvim. If you’re careful with plugin choices, you can get nice QoL features and still be stable. I can’t think of a time when I’ve had nvim crash. You’re correct that random guides are generally garbage, but by reading plugin docs (gasp), you can generally get stuff working without much fuss.
- monooso 2y agoWhat on earth are you talking about?
- shmerl 2y agoWhen I was looking for an editor that supported true color themes, neovim supported them, vim didn't. That decided what I was going to use. Stability is good, but if you need a feature that's not there - stability isn't helping.
- wyclif 2y ago>neovim is what happens when the javascript kids decide to "improve" one of the best editors ever created I don't think that's accurate. Now, if OTOH you said "the Lua kids" then I'd probably agree.
- sph 2y agoThere are no Lua kids, i.e newbie programmers that start their career from Lua. The neovim Lua kids were JS kids all along, and brought their philosophy of churn over.
- xigoi 2y agoNeovim is perfectly usable without installing 50 plugins.