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by kaycebasques 454 days ago
AstroNvim was love at first sight for me a couple weeks ago. The AstroCommunity Rust pack gave me a super robust Rust development environment with literally just a couple minutes of setup. But as mentioned, I've only been using it for a couple weeks at this point. https://astronvim.com/
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bayesianbot 454 days ago
Just trowing out another similar, LazyVim[1]. I tried different neovim and emacs configurations over few years until stumbling on LazyVim and have been really happy with it for quite a while now - everything works out of the box, easy to add stuff and reasonably good documentation.

[1] http://www.lazyvim.org/

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l00sed 454 days ago
LazyVim wasn't even around when I first tried Neovim. Knowing what I know now, this would definitely be my distro of choice. The maintainer, Folke, is an incredible programmer and has made many of the most popular plugins used by the community.
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linsomniac 454 days ago
I've been using AstroVim for a couple months, LunarVim before that; switched because they stopped maintaining Lunar. I had been carrying some vimrc files around for decades before that and got tired of having a partially working set of the more advance features.

With these packages, keeping as stock as I could stand, I've got a great set of LSP and advanced editing features with minimal effort. It's been great.

I've also got helix set up with the LSP settings.

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l00sed 454 days ago
I started from Vim and ended up migrating my dotfiles to Lua. I was really glad when I bit the bullet because I was able to keep most of my favorite functionality but start using more of the modern Lua-base plugins. Lazy.nvim is a really great package manager— super simple.

I ended up stealing some LSP config from AstroNvim or another Nvim "distro". I've never tried committing to one of those prebuilds though. I was always hacking at my own configs. I do like to skim some of the code though because they are generally implementing much better design patterns. I'm sure that the community will do a better job than me with Lua 9/10...

The obsessive dotfile management does help to give you a deep understanding of your editor though— I will say that.

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