Hacker News Reader

>but the value proposition is: neovim, with vscode compatible snippets and typescript-language-server-driven autocomplete (also works with vanilla JS) out of the box.

Perhaps a dumb question, but wouldn’t it be a better idea to make a proper vscode/neovim plugin?

View on HN

It's not really the same use case though, a vscode extension is limited by the vscode API, but I imagine if someone manages to make an extension that is just a wrapper around a neovim process it will be pretty compelling. Making a neovim plugin wouldn't get you the graphical IDE features like an embedded browser and/or graphical debugger.

The current vim plugin from VSCode uses neovim under the hood, at least for some operations

Reply on news.ycombinator.com