Why hackers moved from Vim to Neovim
3 hackers described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched from Vim to NeoVim this year, after about 15 years on Vim.”Insanity, 2026-09-27original comment ↗
“I switched from vim to neovim at the time when the former didn't support true color themes”shmerl, 2026-03-29original comment ↗
“I personally also moved from vim to neovim mainly because of better LSP support.”embedding-shape, 2026-01-13original comment ↗
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Vim vs Neovim
| Vim | Neovim | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 4 | 10 |
| Hackers who criticize | 2 | 2 |
| Moved away from it | 6 | 3 |
| Moved to it | 3 | 10 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Vim
No further criticism of Vim captured yet.
Praise for Neovim
“and why I moved from Jetbrains Rider to Neovim, and so on.”nozzlegear, 2026-07-01original comment ↗
“This is the reason why I switched from VSCode to nvim (AstroNvim to be specific).”Ronsenshi, 2026-06-28original comment ↗
“I just switched from Doom Emacs to Neovim and my impression of Neovim has been much better.”royal__, 2026-06-15original comment ↗
“I switched from Cursor to Neovim and at first I hated Neovim’s poor AI ghost text.”goodoldneon, 2026-03-30original comment ↗
“Writing code feels exciting again.”avanwyk, 2026-01-06original comment ↗
Other moves from Vim
- Vim → Zed (2)
- Vim → VS Code (1)