Should I use vim or neovim?

1. Vim

   1 435 37,721 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)?

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3. dotfiles

   2 4 - -

   lua config

4. octo.nvim

   3 28 2,586 9.5 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

5. cli

   4 275 38,525 9.9 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.

6. gh.vim

   5 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.

7. barbar.nvim

   6 38 2,450 6.6 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).

8. vim-suda

   7 12 763 4.8 Vim Script

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

   

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10. notes

    8 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.

11. neovim

    9 1,421 87,095 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.

12. govim

    10 9 882 4.0 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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