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Close but not close enough. For example: in VSCode you can select/hover over any expression and it’ll tell you the computed TypeScript type. None of the current language server tools for Vim (eg ALE) give you that information [0]. Why would I live without this useful feature just to use Vim? I love Vim, but I love knowing the type the TS compiler thinks an expression is even more, especially when good enough Vim emulation is available. [0] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/issues/3206

You can use these features very easily in Vim with ALE. Map a shortcut to :ALEHover and that's it. https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

ALE [0] is also nice if you just want a lightweight way to add linting / formatting / name lookups / autocompletion without a lot of extras. It uses LSP for everything, and can apparently be used together with coc, although I'm not sure why you'd want both. [0] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

> The beauty of ale plugin is that it supports almost anything from scratch this has been my experience too. I was editing some prolog the other day, `:ALEInfo` recommended swipl. worked like a charm! the linters covered are quite incredible: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/tree/master/ale_linter.... And if you read each integration file, they are quite small and comprehensible. I've never needed to add one myself, but I feel like I could if I wanted to.

I personally prefer https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale plugin. It is in vimscript and supports almost everything (including clangd) out there: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/supported-...

I use ALE, which I believe includes Rust by default. https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

I used to be like you describe, mostly because language-specific plugins were a dumpsterfire of hidden complexity, that really slowed down your editing experience. While some plugins are brilliantly-designed, it takes a long time to learn how to configure one language plugin to your tastes, and that learning is generally non-transferable to other language plugins. (vim-go fits this to the T, ime). https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale (along with the language-server movement in general) changed my perspective. I now do at least the go-to and autocomplete half of IDE things, now.

Mileage may vary depending on language support, but vim does have a go to definition feature[1][2]. I believe there is also out box error checking for some languages, and if that is not enough for you (and at the risk of offending a large number of vim purists), there is a fantastic plugin called ALE[3] that will likely provide you with what you want. 1: https://vimhelp.org/pattern.txt.html#gd 2: https://vimhelp.org/pattern.txt.html#gD 3: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale