vim VS neovim

Compare vim vs neovim and see what are their differences.

vim

🧛🏻‍♂️ Dark theme for Vim (by dracula)

neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability (by neovim)
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vim neovim
17 1,384
1,296 76,465
0.3% 2.7%
4.8 10.0
14 days ago 4 days ago
Vim Script Vim Script
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

neovim

Posts with mentions or reviews of neovim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim and neovim you can also consider the following projects:

plenary.nvim - plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified. All the lua functions I don't want to write twice.

vim9 - An experimental fork of Vim, exploring ways to make Vim script faster and better.

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

vim-context-commentstring - Vim plugin that sets the value of ‘commentstring’ to a different value depending on the region of the file you are in.

neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.

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

zet - Zettelkasten Repo. This is where I dump my knowledge as it happens, all my zettels ("slips" or notes) about almost anything and everything. The idea is rather simple really and very powerful. Be warned, however, just because something is here doesn't mean it is accurate or even that I still believe it.

AstroVim - AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins [Moved to: https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim]

gruvbox-contrib - Ports of the gruvbox colorscheme

LunarVim - 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.