Neovim 0.8 Released
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Neovim 0.8 Released
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Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#2Just built it from source on a beta of macOS Ventura… everything went smoothly. These guys have done a great job.
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#3That's a LONG list of fixes & features. I'm fairly new to vim (using Neovim as an IDE to learn Rust) but I'm very tempted to pull and build this release.
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#4Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can't find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don't know what I would be getting by switching, and I'd probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I'm a heavy user of :terminal).
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#5Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can't find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don't know what I would be getting by switching, and I'd probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I'm a heavy user of :terminal).
Neovim is vim 8 compatible. It _also_ supports LUA script for config and plugins, has native LSP support, and runs much more efficiently.
You can run your current .vimrc using neovim.
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#6Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can't find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don't know what I would be getting by switching, and I'd probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I'm a heavy user of :terminal).
Treesitter integration is a bit easier in neovim IMHO (but I haven't tried to make it work with vim too much.)
Newer plugin development seems to be much more on the nvim side than vim as well. (Although I do feel fzf is superior to telescope, at least out of the box.)
I'm happy neovim exists, it rekindled vim development.
Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the bus factor 1 on vim?
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#7Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can't find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don't know what I would be getting by switching, and I'd probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I'm a heavy user of :terminal).
Plugins built with lua, lsp, treesitter for syntax highlighting are the big ones.
https://neovimcraft.com — For neovim specific plugins
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#8Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can't find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don't know what I would be getting by switching, and I'd probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I'm a heavy user of :terminal).
Yeah it's a tough one. I've switched back and forth relatively freely over the years, but now that new VimScript (vim9 script) has breaking changes and neovim will not be supporting it, it's probably time to pick a pony.
I may end up sticking with og vim but my heart has always been with neovim. regular vim would undoubtedly still be stuck in the stone age (including with no :terminal) had neovim not started some competition. I get the feeling that VimL's evolution was done in a way that made it quite difficult or impossible for neovim to merge/rebase into. Hopefully that wasn't intentional.
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#9Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can't find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don't know what I would be getting by switching, and I'd probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I'm a heavy user of :terminal).
Telescope is must have for me.
Re: Neovim 0.8 Released
#10Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can't find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don't know what I would be getting by switching, and I'd probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I'm a heavy user of :terminal).
From the opposite side, I decided a few years ago to use neovim in place of vim, and there were no drawbacks to making the switch for me.
Then again, most of my time these days I spend in JetBrains Clion with Vim emulation, as it is much better suited to the kinds of projects that I currently work on than Vim or Neovim ever was. So take my opinion on Vim vs Neovim with a grain of salt.