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That was months ago actually. I just retried and it works perfectly, but it's still synchronous and blocks the UI. This is what I expect from neovim: provide me with async lint/checks.

The only ongoing works on the problem I've seen are https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/issues/1253 and https://github.com/benekastah/neomake, which I've not tried yet.

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There's a new plugin called neomake[1] which was written from scratch to take advantage of the Neovim async api. It's a young project though.

[1] https://github.com/benekastah/neomake

> This is what I expect from neovim: provide me with async lint/checks.

It would have to be written using the new remote-plugin architecture I'd think. Plugins that were written for Vim would always be synchronous.

Not necessarily. The original patch Tarruda tried to get merged into Vim provided asynchronous commands in pure Vimscript (through a new kind of event for autocmd).

I would guess this feature is already in NeoVim.

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