nvim VS nvim-lua-guide

Not OP, but I had the same question. I would prefer to manage my nvim config not the NixOS way.

You might also have a look at my recent commit on my "develop" branch https://github.com/Allaman/nvim/commit/1b587f16d074755c94a8692925dfcbf5344fb7d4

Allaman's Neovim Config

In my config I have these lines

From time to time I build my Dockerfile to test if my config would run on a fresh system or if an issue might only be related to my host

It is working for me but I am not aware of any "special" setting I made. here is My cofing maybe you can get an idea. ([go](https://github.com/Allaman/nvim/blob/main/lua/config/go.lua), [lsp](https://github.com/Allaman/nvim/tree/main/lua/config/lsp)]])

There is only one LSP running for in my Neovim My config for reference

Thanks for your inspiration ;) https://github.com/Allaman/nvim/commit/78e32885972947240b0907df6a8a1cceea9fce19

in the last couple of weeks I noticed some Neovim crashes (segmentation faults says my terminal) and I wonder if I am alone? Before that I never had crashes and now at least two a day. Neovim head and here is my config

Nvim Lua guide

My main struggles beyond a simple problem are just the inability to find a way to easily debug things and the general process for setting up a plugin. I mostly work with Python/Jupyter, some C and Lua/Bash scripts, and usually you can either write tests/print debug for smaller scale things or get some stack trace if you have an error. With Neovim development, it just feels like there's nothing more besides update plugin, try on neovim, fail, bash head against wall, and repeat, and that doesn't quite seem efficient or correct - I'm sure there's something out there that should make the process easier. I tried looking online but I haven't found many that really fit my needs (most of the resources here seem more targeted towards creating your own init.lua, and Luadev plugin's commands are all broken (:Luadev-RunLine and any other command keeps telling me I got some trailing space). I'm really just looking to see how to make a snippet library, but there doesn't seem to be much that helps me. If someone could let me know how they debug their plugin or point me to any external resources, please let me know!

I have no guidance for the first point. For the second, checkout the neovim lua guide or : lua-guide

A quick google search turned up this codeacademy class on learning to program in Javascript. I didn't vet the whole thing, but it appears to assume you know nothing, which is what you need. If you go through that, you can then consume one of the resources that /u/luascriptdev post to equate that back to Lua. Again, the concepts translate.