confiture.nvim VS overseer.nvim

This is also not a direct response to your question as I'm not familiar with asycntasks.nvim, but having a build and run functionality is probably the main reason why I wrote confiture.nvim, which is another task launcher plugin (that also aims at being simpler than overseer). The main limitation with the implementation of the build and run of confiture is that the build phase will not be asynchronous. It is sufficient for my workflow though -- if I know the build command will be long, I usually launch it on its own first, which can be asynchronous using confiture (with vim-dispatch under the hood).

It's can also be used from vim to launch custom commands (as is done for example in my other plugin confiture.nvim)

It doesn't answer your question but this is how I do what you described : https://github.com/romainchapou/confiture.nvim

I'm mostly fine with language specific configuration, which I find not too hard to manage in my init.vim, but I rely a lot on project specific commands for building and running projects, so I'll do a shameless plug for my plugin, confiture.nvim, which aims to provide a simple solution for this.

When working on multiple projects it might be useful to define some local configuration that should be automatically loaded. This e.g. includes customized LSP configuration or adding build tasks for task runner plugins like overseer.nvim. To do that you can create .nvim.lua in your project directory and define your local settings there.

I use https://github.com/stevearc/overseer.nvim, a task/job runner kinda like the one in VS Code. You can run your builds, tests, lints, etc. with it.

overseer.nvim

There's overseer.nvim to run all sorts of things and neotest to run tests. In general, you can check awesome-neovim or TWiN to look for plugins.

Here's an example of how to configure your vim_ui_select picker for the amazing task managing plugin overseer.nvim!

I use overseer for this https://github.com/stevearc/overseer.nvim

I would like to call out that "make compiler plugins async" sounds like a simple change, but quickly becomes quite complex. Let's say you do an async :make, now you have a background process. How do you cancel it? How do you view the output? Can you hide it and then come back to it? Can you run more than one at a time? Can you view all running tasks? If you want to have only very basic controls you could do what vim-dispatch is doing, but I personally don't think it's very good. I think any solution shy of VS Code style tasks control will be insufficient, but I think the appetite for adding something that complex to core Neovim is quite low. That said, this (and more) is something I really wanted, which is why I wrote overseer.nvim

I still can't get testing and debugging tests down, so I am going back to intellij or goland to do that. I have been at it for about 3 weeks now. I spent so much time setting up my config. haha. Having said that, I really like Overseer https://github.com/stevearc/overseer.nvim

overseer.nvim