Based on answers to the following question:
Which development environments did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year? Please check all that apply.
Neovim is the most admired code editor in the 2024 Stacked Overflow Developer Survey
Source: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#admired-and-desired-new-collab-tools-desire-admire
I’m not surprised at Helix’s numbers, either. I wish we could sort by Admired; I think the picture would be more interesting.
You mean apart from being able to write plugins in Lua instead of Vimscript?
I’m sure there are more differences; nvim has plugins written in every language. One reason I stepped away from it is because, for development, I was using a fair number of plugins, and i noticed the starting nvim would launch nodejs, a Python runtime, a Java VM, Lua runtimes… I started to feel as if I might as well be using emacs.
So, yes: you’re right. NeoVim has more features than plain vim, including a dozen different plugin managers and the ability to write plugins in almost any language. I meant that, from an editing modality, they’re very similar.
neovim can be an entire IDE. it’s like vscode vs visual studio
Regular vim has that (as a compile option, like most of its features).
I’m hoping they’ll have a separate Query Language list. We need to know more query languages because SQL has wayyy too much power, IMO.