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I've been using entirely Neovim for around 4 months now. The only issue i experienced was two plugins (out of many) that had slight issues. One was an issue with Powerline, and i forget the other. Note that i had wanted to get rid of powerline anyway, so i didn't bother trying to get it to work.

As a side effect, various things seemed to become much faster, such as Vundle installs. I assume this is due to some async work, but i never really looked into it, so this is very anecdotal.

Overall it's been a seamless transition. I haven't even bothered to keep up to date with the repo master, simply because it has worked so well i haven't needed to.

Really enjoy this project, can't recommend it enough :)

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> Really enjoy this project, can't recommend it enough :)

Genuine question, why is it so great? any reason to switch to it?

One of the big reasons is it has multithreading. So, you know when you have a plugin that's doing something and the whole editor locks up so you can't do anything... with NeoVim there's a way to prevent that from occurring.

I tend to avoid plugins so that really has never happened to me. I can see how that would be annoying to those that do though.

Additionally, neovim has gone through a huge code cleanup. Something vim will not do because they want to maintain infinite backwards compatibility.

Many old builds have been dropped and a number of important things have started using libraries (libvterm just an example of this). In theory this won't change the functionality, but may, long term, improve stability.

It's also nice that we aren't relying on one person to keep the project going. Bram is very dedicated, but when his response to "How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future?" is "Keep me alive", that doesn't say anything great about the project.

belak (author of dead sibling post to this one), FYI, you appear to be hellbanned.

Well, i suppose i'm recommending it because of the future. Currently, it has some advantages sure, but perhaps it's not enough to "care" about. I mean, it's easy to install and could potentially be a drop in replacement, but you may not care about even bothering to install it.

I recommend it, simply because it supports and promotes awareness of a really cool project. One that potentially could have significant gains.

I had many SIGABRT with my vim config under the hideous non-posix Terminal.app. Sometimes a SIGSEGV. With neovim, gone. Never had any.

Also, it's a bit faster (very noticeable with CtrlP).

Ah yea, CtrlP too, heavily!

> Note that i had wanted to get rid of powerline anyway, so i didn't bother trying to get it to work.

OT, but why? what did you switch to, if anything?

Its very heavy. I've been using airline for the last year or so. https://github.com/bling/vim-airline

Can't recommend Airline enough. It's functionally equivalent to Powerline, without the added burden of having to use Python in the background.

I switched to nothing. In the future i'd like to enable something, but Powerline was always a bit messy and performance intensive (using it in both vim and tmux). I just got a bit tired of it.

I'd like something, but i'm in no rush to find it.

Are you using it purely in the terminal? Is there any form of gvim functionality yet?

No gvim that I know of. However, it has a different philosophy there. The UI will be swappable. It will just embed neovim.

Purely in Term edit, no idea about Gvim

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