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      1 month ago

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

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        1 month 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.