Why developers like Neovim

What is Neovim?

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.

Neovim is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.

Neovim is an open source tool with 62.9K GitHub stars and 4.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Neovim 's open source repository on GitHub

Companies

24 companies reportedly use Neovim in their tech stacks, including Focus21 Inc. , GatewayAPI , and Bivee .

Focus21 Inc.

GatewayAPI

Bivee

Paraşüt

TomYo Edtech

Roon Labs

s21g

General

TWave

Developers

469 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Neovim .

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Neovim Integrations

fzf , Oni , Tandem , LunarVim , and NvChad are some of the popular tools that integrate with Neovim . Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Neovim .

fzf

Oni

Tandem

LunarVim

NvChad

Codeium.vim

AstroVim

LazyVim

CosmicNvim

Pros of Neovim

31

Modern and more powerful Vim

27

Fast

22

Asynchronous plugins

20

Stable

18

Edit text fast

15

Vim plugins work out of the box

15

Great community

9

Embedable

8

Built-in terminal support

8

Unix-like

4

Plugins in any language

2

External GUIs

2

Extremely customizable

2

Great Colorschemes

Decisions about Neovim

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Neovim in their tech stack.

jlsoffical

Dec 26, 2022 | 7 upvotes · 30.5K views

Needs advice

on

Java

Neovim

and

React

Hi, so I have been contracted by a peer to create a website using React with Java as the backend for server-side applications. I have the project listed on GitHub , and you can find it by searching for my username. The question I have is what is the fastest way to correctly learn all the necessary technologies needed to host the website? I'm also learning Neovim because I used Visual Studio Code for a bit and hated it, so if anyone has advice relating to Neovim that would also be appreciated. Thanks for providing some advice, I have little idea of where I need to go and some direction would be well appreciated. Cheers! Jls

Rogério R. Alcântara

Software Developer · Jan 9, 2021 | 8 upvotes · 230.5K views

Needs advice

on

Neovim

and

Vim

For a Visual Studio Code / Atom developer that works mostly with Node.js / TypeScript / Ruby / Go and wants to get rid of graphic-text-editors-IDE-like at once, which one is worthy of investing time to pick up?

I'm a total n00b on the subject, but I've read good things about Neovim 's Lua support, and I wonder what would be the VIM response/approach for it?

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Neovim 's Features

More powerful plugins
Better GUI architecture
First-class support for embedding

Neovim Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Neovim ?

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Kakoune

Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones. Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

SpaceVim

SpaceVim is a Modular configuration, a bundle of custom settings and plugins, for Vim. It got inspired by spacemacs.

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