Honestly… everybody should try out neovim for at least a week. I mean like… fully commit to it.
It’s just amazing how fast and light on resource usage it is, compared to vscode.
For reference: I just opened qmk_firmware which has a shit load of clang code and files. Guess what, neovim doesn’t even break a sweat, while vscode almost burns my CPU.
I was dumb and spoiled by vscode, i wanted to integrate a task runner and a debugger. They both worked kinda shitty compared to what vscode does and i disliked how bloated the config was. Now i simply use GDB as the debugger and Just as the task runner, stickitg to helix more because of the keybinds, integrated tree sitter and other stuff.
I also love to tinker the environment i work in to my liking (love me my gruvbox hyprland), but i’m kinda not a fan of doing everything from scratch, and pre-made configs for nvim either give me agoraphobia by how huge they are, or are too barebones. Helix just clicked for me, because it offers everything necessary out of the box, while allowing to tailor the rest to your liking. Also, because of its editing model which is supperior.
Debugging is kind of a weak point in vim to be honest, there is a plugin called termdebug which comes bundled with vim that can do gdb debugging ok, but anything more complicated mostly just feels like a lot more work and a bit more jank than just using vscode.
I use just as well, it’s a more vimy approach than something more tightly integrated so that makes sense.
Helix is nice, but I don’t think I could leave behind some of my vim plugins, fugitive in particular is an integral part of my git workflow. Haven’t used the kakoune editing model enough to really decide if I think it’s better than vim personally.
oh, never tried fugtive. I just made a keybind that opens lazygit inside of a helix buffer :D