Rant: Neovim is less productive than VS Code

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  • nvim-treesitter

    Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

  • For example, I am hoping the entire https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter repo just disapears for `0.5` and all the treesitter languages are built into the official release. What other editor would expect you to jump through so many hoops to get good quality highlighting? The built-in highlighting is mostly junk and needs to be flushed.

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    Vim mode for VSCode, powered by Neovim

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  • wishlist

    A public catalogue of Lua plugins Neovim users would like to see exist (by nvim-lua)

  • There is wishlist for neovim-lua projects. Try posting an issue there, maybe you'll get some followers / contributors.

  • zls

    A Zig language server supporting Zig developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

  • As a challenge, I wanted to get Zig working with my config. I timed myself from the first tab opening, to the point I was able to edit Zig files with syntax working and the LSP setup. This took me 30 minutes. Most of that time was spent trying to compile zls because of a current incompatibility with the latest Zig master release. The time I spent learning how to configure properly my editor is time that I will never spend trying to figure out how another program works, trying to memorize hundreds of different nonsensical, arbitrary keybinds, trying to figure out how the workflow of an editor Unfortunately, I don't think Neovim (especially the nightly features) is mature enough for a "distribution" like SpaceVim to really work. We're getting there, but I'd say it's worth waiting for the official 0.5 release.

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