[btipling]

> My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet

And when did you last try Neovim? Because I use it everyday with all of my plugins from vim with 0 problems. The new remote plugin system with python support is making huge strides. People have already started on Go support and I imagine JavaScript, lua, etc is not far behind. It's a very exciting time. I recently even got a commit merged, it's a great community and I've plastered my Macbook with Neovim stickers. :P

[fizzbatter]

Thanks for this, i had no idea it was even possible to use NeoVim yet! Think i'll spend some time this holiday setting it up, appreciated!

[bru]

>Think i'll spend some time this holiday setting it up, appreciated!

That's not needed. With the default config or a simple vimrc it's a drop-in replacement. Some extensions don't work yet (even Syntastic) but that should be resolved soon.

[Spiritus]

I have no problems running Syntastic. What are you running in to?

[bru]

That was months ago actually. I just retried and it works perfectly, but it's still synchronous and blocks the UI. This is what I expect from neovim: provide me with async lint/checks.

The only ongoing works on the problem I've seen are https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/issues/1253 and https://github.com/benekastah/neomake, which I've not tried yet.

[Spiritus]

There's a new plugin called neomake[1] which was written from scratch to take advantage of the Neovim async api. It's a young project though.

[1] https://github.com/benekastah/neomake

[btipling]

> This is what I expect from neovim: provide me with async lint/checks.

It would have to be written using the new remote-plugin architecture I'd think. Plugins that were written for Vim would always be synchronous.

[kolme]

Not necessarily. The original patch Tarruda tried to get merged into Vim provided asynchronous commands in pure Vimscript (through a new kind of event for autocmd).

I would guess this feature is already in NeoVim.

[fizzbatter]

So you don't recommend starting fresh?

[bru]

Do keep in mind that my experience is really limited: I compiled neovim and it works fine with my .vimrc & all extensions. So there's no reason to start fresh.

However there's no difference so far: Syntastic checks are still synchronous, and I should spend some time to research alternatives (e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/2m1w3k/neomake_an_as...)

[Touche]

The problem with this is, unless you are a plugin author these things aren't compelling reasons to switch. Maybe they'll enable new types of plugins not possible before, but until that happens I don't feel a reason to use neovim.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

The last time I tried it was about two months ago. I'll have to give it another go, thanks!