kickstart.nvim VS KotlinLanguageServer

Compare kickstart.nvim vs KotlinLanguageServer and see what are their differences.

kickstart.nvim

A launch point for your personal nvim configuration (by nvim-lua)

KotlinLanguageServer

Kotlin code completion, diagnostics and more for any editor/IDE using the Language Server Protocol (by fwcd)
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kickstart.nvim KotlinLanguageServer
298 23
21,684 1,750
4.2% 2.6%
8.5 8.2
28 days ago 7 days ago
Lua Kotlin
MIT License MIT License
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kickstart.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of kickstart.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-05.
  • Switching Fully to Neovim
    9 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2025
    My configuration was inspired by several great sources, including lazyvim starter, ThePrimeagen’s dotfiles, kickstart.nvim, and Typecraft’s Rails config. These provided a strong foundation that I’ve adapted to fit my workflow.
  • I Miss Vim
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2025
    https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim single file config in lua with the essentials. Some of the article still rings true though.
  • Tips to learn Programming by a Non-Ex FAANG (with only 2 months exp of course)
    1 project | dev.to | 1 Jan 2025
    Word of caution though, if you are a tinker like me you might want to stay away from vim (or VS Code plugins) or you might lose a month of learning time as you configure everything. I mean I did deep learn my editor and lua so I cannot complain too much. If you want to still use vim or neovim then use kickstart for vim and leave the configuring alone for now.
  • So You Want to Write Java in Neovim
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2024
    I believe that the Neovim Kickstart project gives you Telescope as the fuzzy finder. (The YouTube video by TJ is linked in the README.)

    https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim

  • [SOLVED] Vue 3 + TypeScript + Inlay Hint support in NeoVim
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Nov 2024
    Since you asked so nicely, sure. Here are the volar and ts_ls server configs for nvim-lspconfig. If you're using something like kickstart.nvim, you'll want to add these entries to your servers table:
  • Neovim, but it’s in Windows
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Jul 2024
    git clone https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim.git $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim\
  • An Experienced (Neo)Vimmer's Workflow
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2024
    For casual users like me, I find Kickstart (https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim) a good and sensible default that's not too opinionated.
  • My Flow and Productivity has Improved with the Simplicity of Neovim
    14 projects | dev.to | 21 Jun 2024
    With all of the above as the foundation for my move, where did I start? Honestly, not quite at the bottom but pretty close to it with TJ DeVries' KickStart project. I went down the path of wanting to understand exactly how my setup is working and only add in the plugins that I wanted. Looking back, I just didn't have the time to fully understand exactly what this meant. However, the act of failing with KickStart did give me some solid background in how Neovim, Lua, and Lazy (the plugin manager) work.
  • My Text Editor Journey: Towards Modal Editing
    5 projects | dev.to | 21 May 2024
    And I did give it some time when I tried it again after a while. I would say, using kickstart.nvim was one of the best choices I've ever taken. Hat's off to TJ for creating this wonderful piece of neovim config. It slowly eased me into the world of modal editing and, thereby, into neovim.
  • Now I get NeoVim
    1 project | dev.to | 16 May 2024
    I started by looking at The Primeagen Neovim tutorial that is only 4 videos long, used vim motions in VS Code for about a week, and then I made the jump to the real deal, I downloaded the kickstart.nvim files and starting using it. It was painful, I could not get some basic features for my personal projects working, highlight was broken as well as the go-to definitions, but as you should do as a developer, I looked up in google how to solve some issues, I found that I was missing some dependencies and I needed to install some stuff so treesitter could color my vue files, installed some LSPs, so I could write some basic Golang and I became to be productive.

KotlinLanguageServer

Posts with mentions or reviews of KotlinLanguageServer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-27.
  • How to Setup Vim for Kotlin Development
    12 projects | dev.to | 27 Dec 2024
    Java 11+ and Kotlin. Currently there is an open issue for Kotlin versions greater than 2.0.0. Downgrade if you have any issues.
  • Kotlin is a much better language than Java even with all the new stuff Java has added.
    1 project | /r/Kotlin | 11 Dec 2023
    There's a community-made one, but of course as much effort as has been put into it it's not as featureful as JetBrains's own stuff.
  • Noob here, would neovim work for my usecase
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Dec 2023
    Kotlin is probably the worst case for Neovim. While there is a language server for Kotlin, it's not very advanced and does not look like it's actively developed.
  • Kotlin on VScode, intellij, or android studio?
    1 project | /r/Kotlin | 23 Jun 2023
    Hi, if you are going to do Kotlin the easiest choice is android studio with Kotlin plugin. Using Vscode is more tricky because Jetbrains does not want to support lsp for Kotlin so you only have https://github.com/fwcd/kotlin-language-server available to write Kotlin on Vscode.
  • I LOVE Rust's exception handling
    3 projects | /r/rust | 10 May 2023
    Kotlin Language Server puts a warning on this code, because the bar inside the lambda shadows the function argument bar. Flow typing solves this problem by eliminating the need to redefine bar as a new non-nullable variable in the branch where we've verified it's non-nullable.
  • Kotlin is tightly linked to IntelliJ and that's a risk
    4 projects | /r/Kotlin | 22 Jan 2023
    You want to change something about that? Go and help over at the kotin lsp server. It's maintained, and welcomes contributions. I sometimes use it in my day job (writing Kotlin backend code)
  • Kotlin 1.8.0 Released
    1 project | /r/programming | 17 Jan 2023
    There is https://github.com/fwcd/kotlin-language-server, but I wouldn't expect something more official from a company that refuse to support LSP in their IDEs. JetBrains is the Apple of the IDE world.
  • What are best plugins for C++, Java, Kotlin, Python, & LaTex
    9 projects | /r/neovim | 30 Dec 2022
    Oddly enough, we use mostly the same languages. However, I would advise against using neovim with Kotlin: its language server has an excessive memory usage and its debugger is cumbersome with neovim (I haven't managed to get it working, and currently it also lacks an entry in nvim-dap's wiki).
  • From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    I'll bring up the Kotlin LSP[0] every time I see Kotlin on HN because I really hope the LSP takes off (which would make it viable to use Kotlin with a non-IntelliJ editor).

    Kotlin as a language looks really cool, but I don't want to give up terminal-based, modal editing (which I'd have to in order to use IntelliJ).

    Along those lines, I once tried diving into using Gradle outside IntelliJ, and I couldn't find any good resources to help with that. If folks have hints/links-to-blog-posts with regards to that as well, that'd be great!

    [0] https://github.com/fwcd/kotlin-language-server#this-reposito...

  • Idea: Jetbrains Fleet's Code Engine as an LSP?
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 15 Oct 2022
    I've tried [this Kotlin LSP](https://github.com/fwcd/kotlin-language-server) and it isn't perfect. It's not complete, but it does some of the basic things.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kickstart.nvim and KotlinLanguageServer you can also consider the following projects:

NvChad - Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

LazyVim - Neovim config for the lazy

kotlin-vim - Kotlin plugin for Vim. Featuring: syntax highlighting, basic indentation, Syntastic support

lazy.nvim - 💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim

kotlin-textmate-bundle - Textmate bundle for the Kotlin programming language

Neovim-from-scratch - 📚 A Neovim config designed from scratch to be understandable

NppExtension - :smiley: Language extension for notepad++

AstroNvim - AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins

vscode-kotlin - Kotlin code completion, debugging, linting and more for VSCode

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

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

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