[codetrotter]

From the opposite side, I decided a few years ago to use neovim in place of vim, and there were no drawbacks to making the switch for me.

Then again, most of my time these days I spend in JetBrains Clion with Vim emulation, as it is much better suited to the kinds of projects that I currently work on than Vim or Neovim ever was. So take my opinion on Vim vs Neovim with a grain of salt.

[pletnes]

The big downside is having to install neovim. Good old vim is in macos, git bash on windows, any random vm you’re thrown into… I also use the vim plugin for intellij et al, but I use vim on all the raspberry pi’s, weird windows boxes with some issue, and so forth. It’s already everywhere and neovim isn’t.

[sagarm]

Neovim has official appimage-based binaries that you can simply download, chmod, and execute. Just move it into your personal binaries directory and you're done.