ycmd VS coc.nvim

Compare ycmd vs coc.nvim and see what are their differences.

coc.nvim

Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers. (by neoclide)
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ycmd coc.nvim
2 320
1,679 23,920
0.5% 0.6%
8.2 9.0
9 days ago 6 days ago
Python TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ycmd

Posts with mentions or reviews of ycmd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-09.
  • Tip: YcmCompleter's FixIt allows performing refactorings unrelated to diagnostics
    2 projects | /r/vim | 9 Dec 2022
    Funny thing, I have totally found it out by accident, while looking through ycmd PRs and issues to check whether it supports LSP CodeActions provided by clangd. In this PR, which doesn't seem really ground-breaking, the maintainer mentioned that the code actions will be exposed via FixIt subcommand. I immediately switched to Vim to check whether it actually works, and BAH! There it is!
  • Where to start with LSP in Vim?
    13 projects | /r/vim | 9 Jun 2022
    BTW: I opened this : https://github.com/ycm-core/ycmd/pull/1641 and added this: https://github.com/ycm-core/lsp-examples/tree/master/python in case you want to try YCM with pyright.

coc.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of coc.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
  • I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own (it wasn't easy)
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
    As well as its own plugins Vim/NeoVim can use VSCode's LSPs, DAPs and extensions either directly or via plugins like CoC[1] and Mason[2].

    I would be surprised if emacs couldn't do the same.

    1. https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

  • Existing non-lua plugins examples
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Dec 2023
    The most famous TypeScript one probably is coc.nvim
  • ready to use neovim for web development (frontend) - beginners
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    It is flatly the wrong mindset to think of vim as an IDE. vim is a code editor: get in, make change, get out. Consider vim koans, which are a fun little read. You can throw coc.nvim at Neovim, along with a few other bits to give you a Good Enough setup, but vim isn't and will never be an IDE.
  • Using CoC inlay hints
    1 project | /r/vim | 11 Nov 2023
    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:
  • C# lsp configuration with neovim CoC
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 10 Nov 2023
    I'm currently on an old setup (using coc and polyglot) and nvim v0.6.1. I'll be updating to a more modern setup within next year, using the native lsp and building nvim more frequently. But that's not today.
  • Does anyone know some good altermatives for these Vim plugins on Emacs?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Jul 2023
    coc.nvim
  • LazyVim
    32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2023
    There are some plugins which have the best documentations I have ever seen, but you need to read it from the Vim.

    Example of coc.nvim: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/blob/master/doc/coc.txt

  • Resources on learning bash scripting
    5 projects | /r/bash | 4 Jul 2023
    Actually you can with coc.nvim & coc-sh. So long as shellcheck is also installed and in PATH, it'll integrate with coc/vim just fine.
  • how to set up coc.nvim extension on offline machine?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 7 Jun 2023
    When you install an extension it runs an npm install or yarn, iirc, which is going to be problematic for you being offline. I was going to say you could copy that ~/.config/coc folder directly to the other machine but yeah, Windows, no idea. You see here https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/wiki/Using-coc-extensions
  • GCC autocompletion
    2 projects | /r/vim | 30 May 2023
    You can try https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim, the pre-requisite is to install nodeJS, then to install all the languages LSP. This works for me for Angular, Rust, JavaScript, Vimscript, etc

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ycmd and coc.nvim you can also consider the following projects:

ale - Check syntax in Vim asynchronously and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support [Moved to: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale]

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

vim-lsp - async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim

vim-lsp-ale - Bridge between vim-lsp and ALE

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

lsp-examples - Use any language server with YouCompleteMe.

nvim-cmp - A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.

prorab - :construction_worker: non-recursive GNU make-based build framework

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

coc-ccls - CCLS (C/C++) extension for coc.nvim

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