Neovim (0.5) Is Overpowering | CrispDev
I have heard about Neovim for a long time. I can say that I really appreciate and adopt the ideas of Neovim – it’s more progressive, embraces open source community, and tries to make Neovim approachable to more developers.
However, for its functionality, I didn’t see much difference between Vim. There are various reasons. Firstly, Neovim is a drop-in Vim, so even the plugins could compat each other without much modification, if it is not implemented with Vim or Neovim specific feature. And Neovim somehow pushes Vim to evolve and release similar improvement. e.g., asynchronous job. For an end-user without much deeper knowledge, the biggest differences might be XDG_PATH based directory and init.vim file name.
Until then, I found Neovim 0.5 and try Neovim nightly because of ThePrimeagen and tjdevries, which impacted me with significant differences and power.
There are great language plugins in Vim ecology, but it is not easy to handle. For each language, users may need to get a plugin for it and configure a lot. There was not a unified way to make it. But language server does.
