Good to see this project making progress, but I don't see a changelog. What's new?
- neovim now follows the XDG spec: ~/.vimrc is now ~/.config/nvim/init.vim, etc.
- the viminfo files were replaced by a new system, "shada" (for shared data)
- lots of default settings have changed so it is more sensible[^1] by default
The rest is all the new features (when compared with vim):
- async execution (`jobstart()` et al),
- the extensions to the plugin system, so plugins can run truly asynchronously,
- the rpc api, that allows for extended clients.
I might be fogetting some things, but these are imho the most outstanding things.
One thing I haven't been able to get to work though has been asynchronous plugins. It'd be great if I could get syntastic running in the background. Are there any good articles to read about getting this up and running?
Speaking as someone who only runs straight window managers and Xterms, I hate that XDG bullshit.
This appears to be the first release, so there's no previous neovim release to issue a changelog against.
:help vim-differences