LanguageClient-neovim VS Visual Studio Code

Compare LanguageClient-neovim vs Visual Studio Code and see what are their differences.

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LanguageClient-neovim Visual Studio Code
11 2,838
3,539 158,095
- 1.0%
0.0 10.0
6 months ago 1 day ago
Rust TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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LanguageClient-neovim

Posts with mentions or reviews of LanguageClient-neovim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-09.
  • Where to start with LSP in Vim?
    13 projects | /r/vim | 9 Jun 2022
  • Simple plugin to display tag under cursor in popup (Vim 8.2+)
    1 project | /r/vim | 9 Feb 2022
    i know the language client neovim has such a function (:help languageclient_textdocument_codelens after compiling its helptags). AFAIK you can get that running in Vim 8, but not sure.
  • F# for Linux People
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2022
    On NeoVim, the built-in LSP client works without modification. On Vim, you will need LanguageClient-neovim.
  • Just wanted to share my enthusiasm when I realised error checking (clangd) could be so fast! :) It's almost instant...
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 20 Oct 2021
    I'm using LanguageClient-neovim. Here's the relevant portions of my init.vim:
  • Using Vim for Everything!
    6 projects | /r/FPGA | 6 Oct 2021
    I just saw a nice post in /u/medwatt about using vim for VHDL/Verilog and thought I'd contribute a little! * Syntax and error highlight: https://github.com/autozimu/LanguageClient-neovim * Column align: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-easy-align * Remove annoying whitespaces: https://github.com/ntpeters/vim-better-whitespace * Partial (fuzzy) filename search: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim * Outline all declarations inside a file: â €https://github.com/preservim/tagbar * Treat indentations as vim-objects (useful for languages that don't use { }): https://github.com/michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object There is also mouse support in vim for those who want it. Try typing :set mouse=a. Very useful for resizing windows. I also highly recommend you get good at using folds (https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Folding). It makes it a LOT easier to navigate files. You can save your fold config per-file with :mkview and load it later with :loadview. If I come up with more hints - I'll mention them in the comments!
  • Neovim's built-in LSP with Ruby and Rails
    1 project | /r/ruby | 7 Jul 2021
    I've been using LanguageClient and solargraph gem with plain Vim 8 for a long time already. Still, having a bit better experience at Ruby coding with Emacs and its lsp-mode & company & inf-ruby combo.
  • ALE vs YouCompleteMe vs CoC-rust vs LanguageClient-neovim
    9 projects | /r/rust | 4 Apr 2021
    Might migrate to Neovim's native LSP support at some point, however I find vim-lsp more feature complete out of the box. I used to use LanguageClient-neovim, however, I missed proper support for signature help.
  • Is there a difference between a LSP, code completer, and a linter?
    4 projects | /r/vim | 26 Feb 2021
    YCM is a client. The client is a plugin for Vim or Neovim, even the "built-in" client in Neovim is just a Lua plugin that is included with the editor, it's not really built-in. Examples of other clients:LanguageClient-neovim, vim-lsp, ale.
  • Is rust-analyzer for neovim ever going to support semantic syntax highlighting?
    8 projects | /r/rust | 25 Feb 2021
    LanguageClient-neovim just merged some support for semantic tokens and the plan, as I read the PR/issues, is to next implement some default mappings from the semantic tokens to highlight groups.
  • Which lsp client is best ?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 30 Dec 2020
    The best LSP client is the one that works for you. When it comes to neovim, there is a generous variety of LSP clients to choose from. The notables ones being vim-lsc and vim-lsp written in vimscript, LanguageClient-neovim written in rust, YouCompleteMe is written in python and in my experience is the hardest to install, coc.nvim written in typescript and, of course, the neovim's built-in one. I would recommend going with coc.nvim, as it is the best LSP client right now, though it provides much more features than a standard lsp client does and for some people it is a disadvantage and for the others it's not. Also you have to install node.js on your system for coc.nvim to work. I myself use neovim built-in one for a few reasons: it's not in stable yet, but when the neovim 0.5 version comes out, it is gonna be the standard client. Another reason is it's extremely lightweight and customizable. There were already several discussions on the subreddit about the clients you can check out.

Visual Studio Code

Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Code. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LanguageClient-neovim and Visual Studio Code you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

vim-easy-align - :sunflower: A Vim alignment plugin

reactide - Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development.

vim-lsp - async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim

Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

clangd - clangd language server

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

tagbar - Vim plugin that displays tags in a window, ordered by scope

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

tree-sitter-rust - Rust grammar for tree-sitter

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing