nix-darwin-dotfiles VS vimr

Editor - I use a modified version of nx-ace, its essentially just the ace/cloud9 editor with a few personal tweaks https://github.com/shaunsingh/nix-darwin-dotfiles/blob/main/configs/nyxt/ace.lisp. Then I can launch grip in a panel buffer for a markdown preview

flake.nix: https://github.com/shaunsingh/vimrc-dotfiles/blob/main/flake.nix

You can view my config here: https://github.com/shaunsingh/vimrc-dotfiles/tree/main/.config/nvim, if you want examples of what's described in this post. My config is fully lua, and starts up in about 9ms as per --startuptime

Yes and no. Neovim itself won't load any faster, but there are tools that work better with lua (e.g. packer.nvim). You can also pull some tricks to make neovim load faster (see https://github.com/shaunsingh/vimrc-dotfiles/blob/main/.config/nvim/init.lua)

Nothing related to this bug but you have useless stuff in packerInit.lua.

Here's how I do it: Piecing out the config: https://github.com/shaunsingh/vimrc-dotfiles/tree/main/.config/nvim/lua

Instead of VSNIP I switched to luasnip. You can see my installation here (https://github.com/shaunsingh/vimrc-dotfiles/blob/ea94504185b7315259c901c89fc8cf4bc11ebaf6/.config/nvim/lua/pluginList.lua#L78) and my configuration with nvim-compe here (https://github.com/shaunsingh/vimrc-dotfiles/blob/main/.config/nvim/lua/compe-completion.lua)

And it doesn't look like im setting guifont anywhere. Heres my init.vim in case something else looks off: https://github.com/shaunsingh/vimrc/blob/main/init.vim

For the commenters here: do we have something like VimR [1] for OSes other than the Mac that provides a file explorer sidebar with smaller font size (probably sans)?

[1]: https://github.com/qvacua/vimr

I'm loading sessions at BufReadPost (also tried BufReadPre, which didn't work) instead of VimEnter because I couldn't find a way to find out the "true" CWD at VimEnter. I use VimR, which seems to launch nvim without any arguments even when I launch it from the command line like vimr path/to/file.ext or opening a file in macOS Finder, and set the CWD to $HOME instead of path/to. So at VimEnter, I'm only able to restore a session saved for $HOME, but not my project directory.

https://github.com/qvacua/vimr and https://github.com/qvacua/neovim/tree/5f8dd8c4a33203277cf6058f559383626411693d are good places to start

I've never tried a GUI version of Neovim, and this is the first I've heard of MacVim. Are you referring to VimR? If so, it seems like the problem could have been with the third party GUI software instead of the core Neovim software.