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Why Neovim? (Interview)

Aug 31, 2021

TJ DeVries, core maintainer of Neovim, and Nick Nisi from JS Party dive into the evolution of Neovim, highlighting why it was created as a modern alternative to Vim. They discuss the advantages of Lua for configuration and the powerful integrations of LSP and TreeSitter that enhance coding workflows. TJ also shares his project, Telescope, a fuzzy file finder for Neovim, and emphasizes the collaborative spirit of the community that shapes its development. The conversation showcases the exciting future of this powerful text editor.

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Episode notes

Intro

3min

Exploring NeoVim's Evolution

13min

Navigating Patch Porting and Startup Solutions

3min

Exploring Vim vs Emacs and the Rise of Lua in NeoVim

17min

Developing Against Graphical Editors and the Launch of NeoVim 0.5

3min

Enhancing NeoVim with LSP and TreeSitter

10min

Enhancing Coding with LSP and TreeSitter

17min

Celebrating Community and Contribution in NeoVim's Development

7min

This week Neovim core maintainer TJ DeVries joins Jerod and guest co-host Nick Nisi (from JS Party) to follow-up on our Vim episode with a conversation dedicated to Neovim. TJ tells us why Neovim was created in the first place, how it differs from Vim, why Lua is awesome for configuration and plugins, what LSPs are all about, the cool tech inside tree-sitter, and how he’s writing his own fuzzy file finder for Neovim called Telescope.

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Featuring:

TJ DeVries – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Our Vim episode
neovim.io
Twilight on Changelog News
tree-sitter
nvim-lspconfig
Nick’s dotfiles
nvim-ts-context-commentstring
LuaSnip
telescope.nvim
TJ’s Twitch stream
Nick Nisi on TJ’s YouTube channel - Neovim Builtin LSP Tutorial: Customizing Renames w/ Nick Nisi

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