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Why I Switched From Neovim to VSCode

Shoubhit Dash on June 24, 2023

I recently switched back to VSCode from Neovim as my primary code editor. You may think this is weird because everyone seems to be going the other ...
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Dinesh Kumar Gnanasekaran

Welcome to the club. I have the same experience.
VSCode -> Vim -> Neovim -> VSCode

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Alex Melvin

the grass is "always greener on the other side" :)

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James Oyanna

Yes. Vscode still hold the first place among other editor . It has a rich extension ecosystem that allows you to customize and enhance your editor according to your needs.

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Perry • Edited

Shoubhit being based as always

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Baturax

i created this acoount just to lynch you. that's a skill issue. neovim has plugins more than you could ever imagine. and telling that you switched to vscode because of copilot is another funny thing. github copilot has official support to vim, neovim. Conclusion
big skill issue

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Georgian Stan

What VSCode theme is this?

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Shoubhit Dash

serendipity

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Juan Rodriguez

i'm evaluating neovim + lazyvim, the copilot tidbit is very important, thanks for this

what font are you using in the twitter screenshot ?

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Anand Mahamuni

Tsserver is faster prolly because they are made by the same guys

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Ismail Boussekine

nice article

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Ismail Boussekine

ok

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Catur C

Sir you can't make neovim like vscode because is never there to be