Neovim

Neovim is a modern, hyper-extensible Vim-based text editor built for both casual and expert users, designed to be a highly performant and user-friendly platform for developer tooling. It is a refactor and continuation of Vim, aiming to improve its maintainability, extensibility, and user…

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: technology
Problem solved: Neovim addressed the challenge of extending and modernizing the venerable Vim text editor. It solved the problem of Vim's monolithic architecture, which made it difficult to integrate advanced features like asynchronous operations, remote plugins, and robust APIs for external tools, thereby limiting its potential as a powerful IDE-like platform.
Platforms: OpenBSD, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Windows

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Notable users

Software engineering teams prioritizing terminal-based workflows
Open source communities
Individual developers