> If you use Neovim, can you share why you chose it over VS Code, or one of the new terminal-based editors [...]
I am using vim/neovim for almost 15 years now. I was introduced to vim within _days_ after I started programming. I have a workflow where I open and close my editor several times per minute (although I'm now slowly moving away from this workflow) - startup speed matters a lot for this, of course. I never bothered to learn another editor or IDE because of the speed I get with (neo)vim. Moving my hands away from the homerow for interacting with IDE features just feels like driving a Porsche in a 10mph zone. I have muscle memory in my hands for over 10 years now!
I switched from vim to neovim at around neovim 0.5 mostly for ideological reasons, but I stayed for lua based plugins and a IMO better community. I rewrote my complete neovim configuration (which I took over from vim of course) about a month ago to be pure Lua and to be more streamlined... I don't consider this work or hoop-jumping at all, but optimizing my editing environment to safe time when actually editing source code (or emails fwiw).
On a side-note, I also use vim-ish bindings for everything else, for me DE/WM, Email client (which uses neovim to write emails actually), etc etc. I just don't see a point in un-learning all this.
I am using vim/neovim for almost 15 years now. I was introduced to vim within _days_ after I started programming. I have a workflow where I open and close my editor several times per minute (although I'm now slowly moving away from this workflow) - startup speed matters a lot for this, of course. I never bothered to learn another editor or IDE because of the speed I get with (neo)vim. Moving my hands away from the homerow for interacting with IDE features just feels like driving a Porsche in a 10mph zone. I have muscle memory in my hands for over 10 years now!
I switched from vim to neovim at around neovim 0.5 mostly for ideological reasons, but I stayed for lua based plugins and a IMO better community. I rewrote my complete neovim configuration (which I took over from vim of course) about a month ago to be pure Lua and to be more streamlined... I don't consider this work or hoop-jumping at all, but optimizing my editing environment to safe time when actually editing source code (or emails fwiw).
On a side-note, I also use vim-ish bindings for everything else, for me DE/WM, Email client (which uses neovim to write emails actually), etc etc. I just don't see a point in un-learning all this.