What does Neovim have that regular Vim doesn't?
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- built in suppurrt fur lua scripting, including fur plugins (vimscript plugins almost always also work)
- AST-based parsing engine available to plugins, making syntax highlighting theoretically easier to do correctly
- built in LSP client
some funkier shit in there includes MessagePack suppurrt (allowing extensions (of what kind?) in “any language”), a full blown client-server architecture kinda like tmux or dtach, and am embeddable architecture
- the language server protocol. get live updates about errors (and warnings), documentation on the codebase, and refactoring tools, so long as your language purrovides a dæmon suppurrting the protocol. i think vscode invented it
- no idea
@vaporeon_ anyway this is a long list of features but as i understand it it’s in purractice not necessarily that much more powerful than vim already was, but arguably much easier to set up if you want an IDE-like features
@aescling What is LSP?
Does the whole client-server architecture thing eat more computer resources than plain Vim or is it comparable?