I'm a long time vim user. I watched someone use neovim, started drooling over the plugins they were using and decided to give it a go. As I understood it neovim was born because Moolenaar didn't want to give up on vim's scripting language. It something you might like to replace. I don't know why he was so attached to it. When neovim made LUA it's scripting language it gave rise to all these plugins, which is what I was drooling over.
Within about 15 minutes of using neovim I hit my first bug. Split screen diff's weren't rendering correctly. In fact they rendered so badly it was impossible to use. Then I hit a few more. That reminded me of one thing I am in awe of in Moolenaar. Vim is a big piece of software, yet I don't ever recall hitting one bug in the underlying engine. He was one mother of a programmer, truly a giant among us.
I'm a long time vim user. I watched someone use neovim, started drooling over the plugins they were using and decided to give it a go. As I understood it neovim was born because Moolenaar didn't want to give up on vim's scripting language. It something you might like to replace. I don't know why he was so attached to it. When neovim made LUA it's scripting language it gave rise to all these plugins, which is what I was drooling over.
Within about 15 minutes of using neovim I hit my first bug. Split screen diff's weren't rendering correctly. In fact they rendered so badly it was impossible to use. Then I hit a few more. That reminded me of one thing I am in awe of in Moolenaar. Vim is a big piece of software, yet I don't ever recall hitting one bug in the underlying engine. He was one mother of a programmer, truly a giant among us.