NVIM Config and VIM Migration to NVIM Story

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Synposis

I've been using vim for about 7-8 years now
while i was aware that neovim was a thing
i didn't really understand or tried to understand
which problems it tries to solve which vim has
one day I jumped about features for the 0.5.0 upcoming release
which was about the native LSP in neovim
while i was using YCM at that time for VIM
(which i was pretty happy with)
i thought lets give it a shot how it works for neovim
this is when i realized that neovim had a LUA JIT
implemented at that moment i was sold to it due to prior lua experience
i investigated the lua plugin ecosystem while fairly small at that time
it grew and grew and grew... it looked promising
now we are here back at it again configuring the same editor
with better features
this time getting a IDE like experience
getting rid of prior pain points with vim
and getting rid of bad habbits.
the journy begings

Started 09.04.21

The Main Goals

The Config should fully support:

Typescript / Javascript
Rust
Java
Go
Python

CONFIG SETUP:

IDE capabilities (lsp,debug,project managment,build,lint,test) ✅
Debloating the Config (staying under 100ms bootup time) ✅
remove unused plugins ✅
move to the build in LSP ✅
add formatting and linting ✅
Debug ✅
intutive mappings ✅
fast tab/buffer navigation ✅
project managment ✅
session managment ✅
file managment ✅
lazy load plugins ✅
Treesitter Setup ✅
Refactoring ✅

Philosophy and side infos

Vim is a modal text editing solution so is neovim
it does not strive to be a IDE but it offers IDE like capabilities
with it's exposed lua API and the Community revolving around it
creating a big up and coming plugin ecosystem
since vim/neovim are writtin in c it's a blazing fast editor
vs its competitors while it has it's plugin ecosystem and IDE like capabilities
it does not offer a out of the box solution like VSCode
for that case boilerplate configurations like Lunarvim or Lvim are out there
even this config would be a great place to start to have IDE like capabilities
it's inspired by Lvim though not cloned

Nvim Log

Logs created on

i9 9900k 5Ghz
32GB Ram
Arch Linux

Requirements

Font:

Nerd Font any Monospaced One (if not monospaced the dashboard logo will not work)

Package managers:

python3.9
node
go
rust/cargo

NVIM V ^0.5.*

LSPs in path:

pyright
efm (for lint and formatting mainly lua and js,ts)
typescript-language-server
rust-analyzer
gopls
sumneko-lua
jdtls
etc... check lsp config for more info

DAP:

Some Adapters can be installed with Dap install
Java Adapter has to be installed manually

GH: (plugins.gh)

Add a env var with ur github username
Add a env var with your github token hint: i use bitwarden and populate with the cli the credentials for the env

Setup

Run ./package.py to install debug adapters and lsp
Run nvim and let it do its thing until its done
Run TSInstall maintained
Run in nvim DIInstall python DIInstall chrome DIInstall jsnode

Dema / nvim