Linkarzu | Neovim, macOS, Emacs, Linux, Terminals and more. Inside Neovim with Core Maintainer Maria Solano | Snippets, Completion & More
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May 17, 2025 
Maria Solano, a Neovim core maintainer and former VS Code engineer, shares her journey from traditional coding environments to Neovim's flexible plugin architecture. She discusses the challenges of open-source contributions, her favorite Neovim plugins, and the importance of customizations like snippets and color schemes. Insights about her workflow, preferences for development tools, and laptop choices for Linux users are particularly engaging. Solano also provides an honest perspective on Windows vs. other operating systems based on her experiences.
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Learning Through Contributions
- Maria Solano began contributing to Neovim because she wanted to learn by fixing bugs and adding features she needed.
- Her contributions often stem from her personal desire to understand and improve her own tools and workflows.
From VS Code to Neovim
- Maria started using Neovim around March 2023 and spent entire weekends configuring it extensively.
- She initially struggled with Vim motions and muscle memory but eventually fully switched, leaving VS Code behind.
Philosophy Over Popularity
- In developer tooling like Neovim, it's impossible to create features that satisfy every user.
- It's more important to adhere to core project philosophies than to try to please everyone with feature requests.