• Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    i haven’t tried it but I’m sick of ubuntu being years behind on vim versions, what’s good about neovim?

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      2·
      8 months ago

      what’s good about neovim?

      • NeoVim supports plugins written in modern languages without a Vim script shim. Vim script is utterly awful, and the sooner we can all pretend it never happened, the better the world will be.
      • NeoVim can be configured and extended with lua a language that many people actually like to use.
      • NeoVim is built client/server style, like VSCodium, so it can do the same remote/local mix and match tricks. Notably, VSCodium works nicely as a front end for editing files with NeoVim.
      • NeoVim is somehow actually faster. vim was no slouch, but a full rewrite seems to have added some…ahem…vim.