I use Neovim as my IDE for a long time, mainly for Rust, Python, C, Go, Lua and the usual markup languages and configuration management such has YAML, JSON, Toml and Mardown.
I all started by porting my incredibly old (10+ years) and complicated Vim configuration to Neovim, all implemented in vimscript. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE 🔥..
Later on I discovered you can configure Neovim using Lua and I fell in love with it.
I built a bloated and complex configuration in Lua, based on the LunarVim distribution and inspired on the great work of @abzcoding, piling up to a ton of code and customizations:
❯❯❯ ~/.homesick/repos/lvim/home/.config/lvim $ tokei .
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Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
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JSON 8 804 804 0 0
Lua 76 9900 8668 549 683
TOML 2 55 43 0 12
Vim script 13 425 361 33 31
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Total 99 11184 9876 582 726
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Unfortunately LunarVim is not being actively maintained and I had several issues maintaining such a complex configuration, so I started looking at alternatives and into only implementing configurations and utilities for the functionalities I use daily.
I tried out Astronvim, but it uses a lot of plugins I don't like for important functionalities such has UI and buffers.
This Github issue pointed me at LazyVim and I fell in 💗 again: it is properly maintained by @folke, the author of many plugins I use and love and after a couple of evenings of work, I was able to port all my configuration to LazyVim and I now have a faster and more consistent experience in multiple languages.
On top of this, it's less code to maintain 🤩. It's still a lot, but what the heck, Neovim is what helps me pay the bills 💸!
❯❯❯ ~/.config/nvim $ tokei .
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Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
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JSON 7 892 892 0 0
Lua 48 3864 3516 136 212
Markdown 1 24 0 16 8
TOML 1 3 3 0 0
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Total 57 4783 4411 152 220
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The look and feel is GREAT!
Alpha, the startup / welcome dashboard with recent files, quick actions and sessions and a cool banner 🤩
Developing in Rust with files and tests panels and LSP completion
All the my configuration is open source and you can take what you need from it on Github!