CBcbushko·Feb 25, 2023
There are a couple things:
- Most distros seem to like wrapping functionality and having you use their own convenience functions to get things done. For example, for AstroVim, astrovim.<function> is all over their config files. This is fine if you were a distro developer and you were trying to make things easy for yourself but I do not find it easier for the user when neovim already has simple lua based functions. It is another barrier to entry as you have to learn how the distro authors put things together.
- The config for LazyVim is will thought out. For example, it has 2 directories: /config & /plugins. That makes it simple to figure out where things should go. keymaps go in keymaps.lua, options go in options.lua... it kind of makes sense.
- The plugin config for disabling a builtin plugin is the same as where you would configure your
Read the rest
own plugins. It is literally:
return {
{ "github/plugin.nvim", enabled = false },
}
vs
return {
{ "github/myplugin.nvim", {config here if you want}},
}
- There are no weird plugin loaders and most examples you see from plugin authors are copy/paste into that bracket section.
- The LazyVim website is decent. Not perfect though. https://www.lazyvim.org/
- The starter is a great place to start your setup. https://github.com/LazyVim/starter
- The plugin manager, lazy.nvim, seems to be a lot simpler and well thought out compared to others plugin managers (like packer). It has autoloading, caching, a UI, etc.
- Folke, the distro creator, has written many popular plugins and knows quite a bit when it comes to configuring plugins. That seems to be paying off in the design.
To be fair, there are some design decisions that I don't agree with when it comes to the LazyVim layout itself. Putting everything in editor.lua or ui.lua instead of per-plugin config is not how I would have done it. It was pretty easy to figure out where the plugin settings were though because they match the categories on the website.
Note: I mainly switched to Neovim as I am find that there just seems to be much more development in the ecosystem and the number of amazing plugins coming out is staggering.