Should I use vim or neovim?

• Vim

  424 34,861 9.9 Vim Script

  The official Vim repository

  

There is work currently on improving Vim script, which is shaping up to be as fast as Lua. For configuration though, does that really matter? Almost every command-line tool/TUI has some form of language specific to it. I don't really understand the draw to Lua for this reason. Sure it means you don't need to learn another language, but I just wonder, how are you expected to learn the tool when you are eschewing its native configuration language that is so universally used? What if you SSH to a system that only has Vim installed (which is most likely going to be the case, even a decade from now)?

• dotfiles

  4 - -

lua config

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• octo.nvim

  28 2,074 8.9 Lua

  Edit and review GitHub issues and pull requests from the comfort of your favorite editor

if you want something different you can try that https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim

• cli

  253 35,338 9.7 Go

  GitHub’s official command line tool

  

Yes, octo.nvim looking good, but again it is not inventing anything, it is using https://github.com/cli/cli under the hood and something similar is present in vim with https://github.com/skanehira/gh.vim at least.

• gh.vim

  3 156 0.0 Vim Script

  Discontinued Vim/Neovim plugin for GitHub

Yes, octo.nvim looking good, but again it is not inventing anything, it is using https://github.com/cli/cli under the hood and something similar is present in vim with https://github.com/skanehira/gh.vim at least.

• barbar.nvim

  38 2,057 6.9 Lua

  The neovim tabline plugin.

What sold me personally on Neovim was tab line plugins like barbar.nvim which give a modern GUI look, which I haven’t seen in Vim plugins (correct me if I’m wrong).

• suda.vim

  12 647 4.5 Vim Script

  🥪 An alternative sudo.vim for Vim and Neovim, limited support sudo in Windows

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• notes

  17 53 1.5 Vim Script

  notes on the tools in my Unix/Linux toolbox, dotfiles, etc (by sitaramc)

https://github.com/sitaramc/notes/blob/master/dac.mkd for documentation, https://github.com/sitaramc/notes/blob/master/dac.mkd for code, if you're interested.

• neovim

  1,383 76,256 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

Looking at e.g. this and this development progress seems roughly on-par, although the focus is somewhat on different things.

• govim

  9 857 5.8 Go

  govim is a Go development plugin for Vim8, written in Go

  

I know that govim is a Vim plugin written in Go, but I don't really know how they do it – never really looked much at it.

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