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What's your editor? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Simple question. What do you use for editing Rust code? Why?

I'll start. I use VS Codium, but every now and then I give Neovim and even GNOME Builder a shot.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Neovim, either with kickstarter.vim config or with astronvim.

I used VS Code, but it simply got to slow on my laptop of 12 years age. I therefore started to use helix and got hooked by the ideas of key bindings.

I then heard that Copilot X will / would work on neovim, and I might give it a try in the future I switched to neovim. Although still early I don't regret it at all. I finally understood why people are using it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My biggest beef with Neovim is that because nothing is built-in, there are so many plugins required to make it feature-competitive with something like VS Codium. There are a million and one updates every single time I open Neovim. Lots of opportunities for something to break. I was using Lazy.nvim, but I am considering trying to do something simple from scratch and only add what I need. Configuration without these sort of Neovim distros is a bit weak though. Another fault I have with Neovim, especially since configurations can get insanely complex.

I am about to just try Vim keybindings in Codium, and see how that goes too.