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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!

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