neovim VS vim9

Compare neovim vs vim9 and see what are their differences.

neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability (by neovim)

vim9

An experimental fork of Vim, exploring ways to make Vim script faster and better. (by brammool)
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neovim vim9
1382 8
75,505 450
2.9% -
10.0 0.0
about 24 hours ago about 4 years ago
Vim Script Vim script
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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 2024-03-16.

vim9

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim9. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-16.
  • Which version of Vim do you use?
    5 projects | /r/vim | 16 Mar 2023
    According to some of the original benchmarks Bram and others did, yes, by a small margin.
  • So, is your main editor Vim or Neovim?
    15 projects | /r/vim | 4 Jul 2022
    For folks wondering why more neovim users (including me) are out there. Please check the Vision of Neovim, which pretty much aligned with what I wanted when vim became only editor of daily use. And maybe that is also the reason it aligns with most people and why they started / switched to neovim. Plus, (personally), I hate Vimscript. It's complicated and I even felt to write my own language than writing in Vimscript. Moreover, they came up with Vimscript 9.0 now after so long time and with a Warning! That's just lame.
    15 projects | /r/vim | 4 Jul 2022
    I can't comment on the language, but Bram wrote up motivations in brammool/vim9.
  • Update on Vim9
    2 projects | /r/vim | 30 Dec 2021
  • Vim 9 - Update
    3 projects | /r/vim | 21 Apr 2021
  • Wheel: Navigation framework for Vim: buffer groups, mru, outline, yank
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2021
    I don't see why you would write a plugin in VimL in 2021. I mean even VimL's author decided to just create a new language — vim9 script — instead of fixing this one [1].

    With neovim rpc you can write glorious plugins in TypeScript and Python such as coc.nvim [2].

    Other than that, I'm inspired by amount of work you put in the project.

    [1]: https://github.com/brammool/vim9#3-better-vim-script

  • Todo List for Vim
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2021
    I think its cryptic reputation comes form the use of normal mode commands and regex within scripts. There certainly are warts, like the user's 'ignorecase' setting permeating to many places in the runtime. Which I'd love to see fixed and whilst may also represent a breaking change for some scripts would be far more easily adoptable.

    [1] https://github.com/brammool/vim9/blob/master/README.md

What are some alternatives?

When comparing neovim and vim9 you can also consider the following projects:

helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

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

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]

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

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.

pylance-release - Documentation and issues for Pylance

neovim-qt - Neovim client library and GUI, in Qt5.

vim-visual-multi - Multiple cursors plugin for vim/neovim

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

intellij-lsp-server - Exposes IntelliJ IDEA features through the Language Server Protocol.

lightline.vim - A light and configurable statusline/tabline plugin for Vim