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pynvim
Python2014–2024
neovim / pynvim

pynvim

Python client and plugin host for Nvim

3Distinct people
3Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1.7KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Python client and plugin host for Nvim

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I'll echo others' comments that you should consider not completely ruling out Lua. I'm a Neovim user almost exclusively, and knew no Lua at all coming in to it. In less than a…

Ancapistani used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-11-25 20:56:04 UTC to 2024-08-12 17:20:46 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Ancapistani·Aug 12, 2024Recommendation phrase
I'll echo others' comments that you should consider not completely ruling out Lua. I'm a Neovim user almost exclusively, and knew no Lua at all coming in to it. In less than a day I was up to speed enough to be able to write complex extensions in it, and honestly didn't struggle much with the language itself in getting to that point. Most of my time was spent learning the APIs, not the language. That said, while I've not done so, it _is_ possible to write Neovim extensions in Python. Check out this project for details: https://github.com/neovim/pynvim While there are obviously many editors out there these days, IMO the ubiquity of [n]vim and emacs make them strong leaders. Convincing me to use anything else would be difficult. I love Neovim, and it fits my needs well - but my choosing it over emacs was largely arbitrary. Now I'm in a posi
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tion where I understand Neovim very well but lack that knowledge of emacs. As far as I know they're on par with each other.
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