VSCode vs Neovim: Round Two
About half a year ago, I wrote a post called “VSCode vs Neovim” where I compared VSCode, which I had been using for years up to then, with Neovim, which I had switched to a few weeks earlier.
Now that I have six months of experience using Neovim full-time, I thought it might be a good idea to revisit the observations from my original post and see how they have held up over time…
Installation and setup
Of course my original observation that Neovim’s installation and setup is much more time-consuming still holds true. Real afficionados will claim that this is part of the fun, and while I do really enjoy tinkering with my setup, I also acknowledge that it is a rabbit hole that has taken up a lot of my time!
However, over the last few months there have been several initiatives that make Neovim configuration much easier and quicker than before. For instance, there are easy follow-along YouTube installs like 0 to LSP: Neovim RC From Scratch by ThePrimeagen. Another Neovim YouTuber that is very much worth a mention here, is Elijah Manor, who posts regularly about Neovim and terminal-based tools in general.
