Why Neovim? (Changelog Interviews #457)

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, Bluesky, 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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!