zls VS Neovim-from-scratch

> […] I've had a lot of issues getting editor integration to work correctly. I've installed the VSCode extension but I don't seem to be getting autocomplete etc. […]

If you use ZLS [0], make sure you’re always using the right version for the Zig version you have installed on your machine. In my experience, that fixes 90% of editor issues I’ve encountered using Zig (I don’t use Visual Studio Code though, so it’s possible your editor issues are related to the editor itself).

[0]: https://github.com/zigtools/zls

There is no official documentation but the standard library provides definitions for the exchange format and an incomplete set of function for exchanging messages in Client.zig and Server.zig. You can find examples of the zig compile server in action in my PR for ZLS and a showcase of hot-code-swapping by kubkon. The code that implements the ZCS in the zig codebase can be found here.

Same experience here, I did file a bug about it too: https://github.com/zigtools/zls/issues/1139

Welcome to the word of new languages, I think rust just got an intellij plugin late last year and its been in 1.0 since 2015 (not to mention the years of hype around it). When it comes to "non standard" languages (meaning not the industries current go to for a given niche), it helps to assume there's no "It's just works" type editor support. Luckily most languages, even new ones have LSP servers including zig, and editors like VSCode make it pretty simple to use them.

For the people who come in the future and want to know how to do it, here is the code as of today (at some point it will be in ZLS repository - github.com/zigtools/zls - and you should take a look there too to see more up-to-date code).

Commands: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/zigtools/zls cd zls zig build -Drelease-safe

> Building is slow. It takes about ~3 seconds minimum which is frustratingly slow when I'm fighting basic syntax errors. I wish there was a fast zig check.

> Lack of zig-analyzer makes learning hard.

> zig fmt src/main.zig is nice. Wish it automatically ran on all files.

I also did (well, "am doing", can only work a bit each day and am plugging through day 7 right now) AdventOfCode in Zig this year.

These points here didn't resonate with me at all. I wonder if the author knew about or tried ZLS[0]. I had it on and integrated with my VSCode and it would check a lot of things as I went and format on save. I think I followed something like this[1] to set it up.

[0] https://github.com/zigtools/zls

I've moved from kickstart to neovim-for-newbs by TypeCraft, and then settling with a config I've based off of Neovim from Scratch by chrisatmachine. I've added the plugins I use, made changes to my liking, and converted it to an IDE for my coding. I even created a colorscheme (which I named neodarker) by modifying an existing one, to match my taste.

They also provide a "from-scratch" option, to be easier to understand

I would recommend the Neovim from Scratch series on Youtube with the addition of the code_runner.nvim plugin. It's a good config that will teach you a lot about configuring Neovim. code_runner.nvim is a nice addition, especially for a university student. Good luck!

I don't know myself how I learned neovim, but I started with using a repo called Neovim-from-scratch, but I'm not sure if it's still up to date, but I used it as my base config then started to add plugins I want and remove plugins I don't need. Most of the people recommend kickstart.nvim now as base config for neovim lua config.

Hey So I am trying to setup the neovim config for gopls and ts-server using [this](https://github.com/LunarVim/Neovim-from-scratch/tree/06-LSP), Now I would like to clarify that I have copy pasted from this guys repo and I do understand what he is doing to some extent. But for some reason in the file `lua/user/lsp/handlers.lua` He creted the following function ```lua local function lsp_keymaps(bufnr)

This is the GitHub repo for the aforementioned playlist.

I would recommend LazyVim or Kickstart.nvim. If you don't want to do any configuration, LunarVim might be for you. I would recommend the Neovim from Scratch config since it is very good and essentially has an accompanying guide. However, it is slightly out of date and needs a few tweaks to work properly.