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This Week in Neovim 52 with news and updates from the Neovim plugin ecosystem and Neovim core.
  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    This is one thing I hate about Neovim. One year, Packer is what everyone uses, next year it’s deprecated. It’s like with JavaScript libraries.

    • hallettj@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      When an ecosystem is new there is a lot of design space to explore. No one knows what the best ideas will be - the only way to find them is to try lots of things. After a while it becomes clearer what the good ideas are, and things settle down. That happened in Javascript when React and Vue became popular. You didn’t see a new application framework every month anymore - at least not ones that got a lot of adoption. Exploration shifted to stuff like state-management libraries to use within React. Of course the search for better ideas never stops completely…

      • __lb__@feddit.nlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’ve been updating my plugin managers for over ten years now. Would be nice if neovim just bundled a default plugin manager you could use and all the examples could use.