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I'd rather stick to Neovim with support for LSP (language server protocol) and DAP (debug adapter protocol). See a demo here: https://youtu.be/CcgO_CV3iDo

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Yup, Neovim has become very interesting again due to LSP. Still requires quite a bit of config though.

For anyone interested there's also vscode-neovim [1] if you like what VSCode comes with out of the box but want a full-on nvim instance interpreting your keystrokes.

I'm currently using a combination of terminal nvim and this vscode plugin depending on language.

[1]: https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim

VSCode Neovim looks extremely interesting, does it work well? Is it easy to set up?

Works reasonably well. Multi-cursor/renaming is not as good as VSCodeVim. On the plus side, you have the full set of vim commands available to you such as`:norm`.

I've never used multi-cursors, so I don't think I'll miss them. On the other hand, whenever I want to type Vim commands and the editor doesn't want to, it always jars me.

I will give this a shot, thanks!

I agree with this. This is my setup.

However, I like tinkering with my dev environment quite a lot to make it exactly how I want it. I imagine the target market of Onivim is those users who don't want to tinker quite as much.

One good thing about about Neovim is that it forces vim to keep up. I don't really stay up to date, but I think Vim 8 was mostly updates to keep on par with Neovim.

It's a bit more friendly than that (according to TJ DeVries from the Neovim team). It's more like both teams bouncing ideas off of one another and inspiring each other. And that can result in one release or another just looking like implementing features from the other project.

yup same here

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