Why I Switched From VSCode To NeoVim - My Setup

Why I switched from VSCode To Neo Vim. My setup.

#vscode #vim

[blazinglyfaster]

Vim has that premium responsiveness that makes you want to write more instead of copy/paste

[jtms]

When I was just starting out in my career, my mentor made switching to Vim a precondition of taking me on as a mentee. Best tech choice ever! 20 years later and im still a devout Vim user (now NeoVim because its just a much better implementation). Its the most important tool in my toolbelt!

[nodidog]

When you use gd to go to a definition, you can jump back using the jump list, with ctrl o (and forward again with ctrl i). Think o for 'out', i for 'in'. Also, using . to repeat the previous command is an underrated speed bonus. You probably know these, but thought I'd share 👍

[luciusstark]

I CAME FROM THE FUTURE.
Months after: "why I switched from NeoVim to VSCode - My Setup"

[badtrapify]

Nice, i was hoping for a video like that! Looking to customize my nvim a bit more go specific and it looked pretty nice in your streams.
Keep up the good work! Doei!

[chriscodeslive]

Once you're used to the buttery smooth performance of vim, going back to the other IDEs is so painful, even if all of their built in features are really nice. The other thing is that when something doesn't work 100% out of the box with VSCode, you're usually stuck and in a lot of pain, but you can usually fix your problems with vim

[myalgoplays]

I've been waiting for this for a very long time

[BabaykaMoscow]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Could you share how would you debug with neovim with setting up breakpoints and all this debug stuff?

[garbagechannel]

Most people using neovim tend to have strong feelings about it like this, but im reluctant to get invested because it looks like you're gaining a minor productivity boost and giving up a lot of features and time for it. I get the vibe that its similar to arch users, they spend all this time customizing their OS and its the greatest thing ever and productivity goes through the roof, but the amount of time requires to learn it vs the actual benefits are hard to measure and opinions are more biased because of the learning curve.
I don't see enough of the benefits being presented by anyone using it, and watching them use it, it never looks like the vast improvement to make it worth the learning curve and configuration.

[edzynda]

I love using fuzzy find but if you're working on a repo you're not completely familiar with how do you even know what to type? This is why I still have a sidebar plugin :)

[justanaveragebalkan]

Yeah, don't be like your colleagues, memorize all 3000 files in the project and search for them by memory instead of the file list. Dominance on another level.

[dmitriylevy]

"Dont be like all your colleagues, be a chad, use Vim" 6:22

The reason why I'm switching from vscode.

[dutchdelite]

DIdn't get the blazing speed I'd expected from Nvim on my M1 MacBook pro.. It's basically as fast as VSCode unfortunately. On my Debian Linux laptop Neovim is just 🚀

[anricoj]

"Don't be like your colleagues. Be a Chad. Use vim fuzzy find" 🤣

[nixrohan]

We only get 1 life, why not aesthetics?
I use neovim as well
but i have spend lots of time on ricing my arch linux setup which i am very much happy with <3

[qr]

You're from belgium?! that's sick

[ForeverZer]

Taking the time to get past the initial growing pains is so worth it. I spent nearly two decades thinking vim was unintuitive garbage and that people were crazy for using it, and I regret that I never took the time to learn why people chose to use it sooner. Even if you don't like vim, learning vim motions, even in vscode, is a worthwhile endeavor that increases productivity.

[definitelynotrohan]

hey anthony! I love your videos. I'm in college and I want to become a backend web dev. I have been learning golang lately from your videos + docs (and making some small projects of my own also)

how much frontend knowledge do I need? Should I learn something like React or vanilla would do just fine?

[wuilliam]

Niiiice! I'm a neovim user too :)

[dailyfunnytv]

in this video: random guy is surprised by regular vim stuff