Neovim
10 recommend 2 criticize 10 moved to it 3 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“on the whole it has been a good experience with Neovim.”Insanity, 2026-09-27original comment ↗
“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 ↗
“neovim offered true color support in the terminal so I switched and stayed with neovim since.”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 ↗
“Writing code feels exciting again.”avanwyk, 2026-01-06original comment ↗
“I don't look for where a file is; I type what the file is.”barishnamazov, 2025-12-30original comment ↗
“Im glad i moved from vscode to neovim last year”tacker2000, 2025-12-27original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“But then instead of ctrl+z backgrounding it, I'll accidentally quit vim.”kelnos, 2026-09-27original comment ↗
“I switched from neovim because plugins and updates kept breaking it, and I never really did feel like I was in control of it anyway.”debois, 2026-03-07original comment ↗
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Hackers moved from Neovim to
- Neovim → Emacs (1 hacker)
- Neovim → Helix (1 hacker)
- Neovim → VS Code (1 hacker)
Hackers moved to Neovim from
- Vim → Neovim (3 hackers)
- VS Code → Neovim (3 hackers)
- Cursor → Neovim (1 hacker)
- Doom Emacs → Neovim (1 hacker)
- JetBrains Rider → Neovim (1 hacker)
- Zed → Neovim (1 hacker)
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