[dkersten]

Do any of the plugins that you do use slow the editor down? Eg some completion plugins that parse code may not be the fastest. Neovim makes this asynchronous so it no longer blocks you're editing while its working away in the background. The built in terminal is nice too (I use it to give me a "real" REPL for Clojure development)

[balac]

vim 8 also now supports asynchronous plugins (not sure how many have been upgraded though).