nimlsp VS coc-ccls

Downloading https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp using git

Cloning into '.'... From https://github.com/pmunch/nimlsp * tag v0.4.4 -> FETCH_HEAD + nimble build -y --localdeps Warning: Using project local deps mode Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Prompt: No local packages.json found, download it from internet? -> [forced yes] Downloading Official package list Success Package list downloaded. Installing jsonschema@>= 0.2.1 Downloading https://github.com/PMunch/jsonschema using git Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Installing ast_pattern_matching@any version Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/ast-pattern-matching using git Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Installing [email protected] Success: ast_pattern_matching installed successfully. Installing [email protected] Success: jsonschema installed successfully. Installing asynctools@>= 0.1.1 Downloading https://github.com/cheatfate/asynctools using git Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Installing [email protected] Success: asynctools installed successfully. Building nimlsp/nimlsp_debug using c backend [1m/home/terrior/.local/share/nvim/mason/.packages/nimlsp/src/nimlsppkg/suggestlib.nim(3, 18) [0m[31mError: [0mcannot open file: nimsuggest/nimsuggest[36m[0m[0m Tip: 30 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them. Error: Build failed for package: nimlsp ... Execution failed with exit code 1 ... Command: /usr/bin/nim c --colors:on --noNimblePath -d:NimblePkgVersion=0.4.4 --path:/home/terrior/.local/share/nvim/mason/.packages/nimlsp/nimbledeps/pkgs/ast_pattern_matching-1.0.0 --path:/home/terrior/.local/share/nvim/mason/.packages/nimlsp/nimbledeps/pkgs/jsonschema-0.2.1 --path:/home/terrior/.local/share/nvim/mason/.packages/nimlsp/nimbledeps/pkgs/asynctools-0.1.1 --hints:off -o:/home/terrior/.local/share/nvim/mason/.packages/nimlsp/nimlsp_debug /home/terrior/.local/share/nvim/mason/.packages/nimlsp/src/nimlsp_debug.nim spawn: bash failed with exit code 1 and signal 0.

nimlangserver is an implementation of Language Server Protocol with the goal to make nim IDE experience more mature. The main difference between nimlangserver and the existing nimlsp is that nimlangserver runs nimsuggest in a separate process and that nimlangserver is using a newly introduced version of nimsuggest v3(see bellow). nimlangserver is currently integrated in VScode via vscode-nim and in Emacs via lsp-mode but adding integraion with other editors should be trivial.

Downloading https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp using gitTVerifying dependencies for [email protected]: Dependency on jsonschema@>= 0.2.1 already satisfiedVerifying dependencies for [email protected]: Dependency on ast_pattern_matching@any version already satisfiedVerifying dependencies for [email protected]: Dependency on asynctools@any version already satisfiedVerifying dependencies for [email protected] [email protected] nimlsp/nimlsp using c backend/tmp/nimble_153465/githubcom_PMunchnimlsp/src/nimlsppkg/baseprotocol.nim(2, 8) Warning: imported and not used: 'logger' [UnusedImport]/tmp/nimble_153465/githubcom_PMunchnimlsp/src/nimlsppkg/suggestlib.nim(11, 8) template/generic instantiation of `mImport` from here/tmp/nimble_153465/githubcom_PMunchnimlsp/src/nimlsppkg/suggestlib.nim(7, 14) Error: cannot open file: /usr/nimsuggest/nimsuggest.nimPrompt: Build failed for '[email protected]', would you like to try installing 'nimlsp@#head' (latest unstable)? [y/N]Answer: NTip: 10 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.Error: Aborting installation due to build failureimlsp using gitT Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Info: Dependency on jsonschema@>= 0.2.1 already satisfied Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Info: Dependency on ast_pattern_matching@any version already satisfied Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Info: Dependency on asynctools@any version already satisfied Verifying dependencies for [email protected] Installing [email protected] Building nimlsp/nimlsp using c backend /tmp/nimble_153465/githubcom_PMunchnimlsp/src/nimlsppkg/baseprotocol.nim(2, 8) Warning: imported and not used: 'logger' [UnusedImport] /tmp/nimble_153465/githubcom_PMunchnimlsp/src/nimlsppkg/suggestlib.nim(11, 8) template/generic instantiation of `mImport` from here /tmp/nimble_153465/githubcom_PMunchnimlsp/src/nimlsppkg/suggestlib.nim(7, 14) Error: cannot open file: /usr/nimsuggest/nimsuggest.nim Prompt: Build failed for '[email protected]', would you like to try installing 'nimlsp@#head' (latest unstable)? [y/N] Answer: N Tip: 10 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them. Error: Aborting installation due to build failure

I just did a fresh reinstall of CoC, on a newer version of Neovim. I'm now seeing something I hadn't seen before, which CoC calls "inlay hints". They look like this:

As recommended by michaelsbradley below, I installed https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver. I'm using coc.nvim (https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim) so I followed the instructions here from nim langserver https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver#vimneovim and seems to be working well!

Actually, I'm maintaining coc-perl (https://github.com/bmeneg/coc-perl), which enables the use of Perl LSP extension for vcode on vim/neovim using the CoC (https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim) backend. But it's completely on top of Perl::LanguageServer.

For vim specifically, I've been using coc.nvim, which works pretty well for my needs, and I know its quite popular. Another fairly popular one is YouCompleteMe, which I had taken a look at for some other languages; but ended up just using coc as I can't justify using YCM once a year (if that) -- too much "headache" for not a lot of use, you know?

Plug 'https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim' " Auto Completion

I do think VSCode is a great tool and I recommend it frequently to people, but I still want to set the record straight here. Yes, vim is obviously limited in the sense that as a CLI app it doesn't draw it's own PDF or HTML windows, that's fair. But it can remote control your favorite PDF viewer or browser for roughly the same functionality. I'm currently writing my thesis using vimtex and it's quite smooth. And all the other stuff you mention is implemented quite competently by various plugins like vim-fugitive, coc.nvim, vimspector and copilot.vim.

Sounds like you want vim-which-key and coc.nvim.

Another option is to just download https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim Which is basically a one stop shop for completion, and it's pretty fast, it just uses nodejs instead of built in nvim lua functions.

coc.nvim

dont over copy and paste example .vimrc, keep it simple and grow tooling as you use. for linting and code completion : https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim (easy to add languages)