Reuniting with Neovim

2026-02-01

A few months ago I had made my farewells with Neovim.

But now I’m back. The reason? A coworker at the office. They told me that debugging your editor gives you a sense for debugging programs.

So I’ve updated to the HEAD version, allowing me to use v0.12.

neovim-head-version.jpeg

This has support for a neovim official package manager, which also allows me to install LSPs very easily. Below is an example of an LSP for Go in action.

neovim-with-gopls

I probably won’t have much programming opportunities until university starts again next month, and by then hopefully v0.12 will have a stable release. Since AI is mostly prohibited, I want to make my editing experience something I enjoy again. VSCode is nice for what it brings out of the box, but the sluggishness, and the vim motions not feeling quite right has been a bit of a pain.