Powerful Vim Editor

Why VIM?

I use Vim as my daily tool, but in the past, I’ve tried several others like VS Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and STS. I used VS Code for a long time and noticed a few things: it’s easy to use, mouse-friendly🤢, but a bit boring and offers less control over the editor compared to Vim.

Now, I love VIM/Neovim. It’s much more efficient to do everything with just the keyboard (😮 💨 heckr hai bhai heckr)

Advantages of using Vim?

Coders/Programmers should prefer Vim because it’s a powerful and efficient text editor that can help them work faster and more precisely. Using Neovim and Vim bindings can offer real productivity benefits.

Terminal skills: Learning Vim can help you learn more about the terminal and improves Linux skills.

Portability: Vim is available on most Unix-based systems, including Linux and macOS.

Keyboard shortcuts: Vim’s extensive keyboard shortcuts and modal editing system allow users to perform complex operations with fewer keystrokes.

Features: Vim has many features, including automatic completion, file comparison, advanced searches, command line history, online help, spell checking, and block operations.

Efficiency gains: Vim can help you get faster at trying out a new plugin or adding a remap.

PDE: Neovim is a personalized development environment (PDE).

Easy installation: Vim is easy to install on any OS and doesn’t require any prerequisites.

Challenges of Using Neovim

I feel learning curve is deep. We need time to grab up the things like movements and key binding but it is worthy. Once you champion or build muscle memory then you will have more capabilities or control over your editor with efficienctly and more productively

VsCode vs Vim

Aspect	VS Code	Neovim
Ease of Use	High, intuitive settings UI and extensions	Moderate to low, requires manual configuration
Customization	Moderate, settings are more abstracted	High, deep control over behavior via scripting
LSP Management	Automatic through extensions	Manual via mason.nvim, lspconfig, etc.
Keybindings	Easy to configure with GUI and JSON	Highly customizable, usually done in config files
Plugins/Extensions	Thousands of extensions, easy to manage	Vast plugin ecosystem, requires manual setup
Performance Tuning	Limited options for deep tuning	Can be tuned and optimized heavily

Value of Tools

What I think is that just like professionals in other fields have their tools—such as a hammer for a laborer or an axe for a woodcutter—programmers also need their own set of tools, environment, and ecosystem. Having good tools makes their work easier and more accurate and productive.

What Neovim?

Neovim is an advanced, modernized version of Vim, a popular text editor that can do much more, sometimes even exceeding VSCode in certain use cases with features like LSP (Language Server Protocol) and Treesitter.

Vim vs Neovim

Aspect	Vim	Neovim
Release Philosophy	Long-standing, stable with incremental updates	Modern, frequent updates, aims to improve Vim
Extensibility	Supports Vimscript for configuration	Supports Vimscript and Lua for faster, modern scripting
Performance	Efficient, but may lag with heavy plugins	Optimized for performance, especially with plugins
Async Support	Limited async capabilities (added later)	Built-in asynchronous job control and better concurrency
Default Plugin Manager	No built-in plugin manager	Includes :packadd for basic plugin management
Community Support	Large, established community, stable ecosystem	Growing, active community, rapid development
GUI Support	Basic, third-party GUIs available	Enhanced GUI capabilities like floating windows, true color
Integration	Primarily CLI-based, integrations exist via plugins	Better integration with modern tools (LSP, Tree-sitter)
LSP (Language Server Protocol)	Limited, requires plugins like coc.nvim	Native support for LSP through built-in features
Compatibility	Compatible with most Vim plugins	Mostly compatible with Vim, but introduces modern features
Development Focus	Focused on stability and backward compatibility	Focused on extensibility, performance, and modernization

What LazyVim?

LazyVim is a tool that makes using a program called Vim easier and more fun. It simplifies setting up Vim by adding useful features and configurations, so you can get started more quickly without having to do a lot of setup yourself.

My Nvim Conf

Checkout my configuration click