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This is why I’m looking at neovim

As much as I like vscode it’s making me a little uncomfortable being reliant on it

There's plenty of non-MS alternatives to the official MS extensions even on VSCode, and those can also be distributed outside the 'marketplace'.

Specifically the MS C/C++ extension isn't all that great either, it isn't developed in the open, full of bugs, and those take forever to be fixed.

(e.g. for a Microsoft product, using VSCode is as low-risk as it gets when it comes to vendor-lockin, "just" don't be dependent on the closed-source VSCode extensions created by Microsoft)

But the configuration is a whole new project in lua. Saying I’ve being using neovim for a while, have shot myself in the foot a couple of times

I would recommend getting started with lazyvim (lazyvim.org). Once you're comfortable with the editor, you can change the config to kickstart.nvim and start customizing it to your liking. That's what I did and I have no regrets. LazyVim allowed me to switch without sacrificing productivity. I was on it for a year before I decided to make my own config

Claude is really good at writing these configurations.

I was able to make VSCode behave like EMacs with vibe coding.

Neovim with Lazy is really easy to vibe code too.

>But the configuration is a whole new project in lua.

That part doesn't worry me. I am concerned about neovim not doing well in a copilot centric future though.

To address your concern, you could look into avante[0]

[0]https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

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