• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Vim and Neovim are fairly indistinguishable

    You mean apart from being able to write plugins in Lua instead of Vimscript?

    • I’m sure there are more differences; nvim has plugins written in every language. One reason I stepped away from it is because, for development, I was using a fair number of plugins, and i noticed the starting nvim would launch nodejs, a Python runtime, a Java VM, Lua runtimes… I started to feel as if I might as well be using emacs.

      So, yes: you’re right. NeoVim has more features than plain vim, including a dozen different plugin managers and the ability to write plugins in almost any language. I meant that, from an editing modality, they’re very similar.