I see a great number of people picking packaged distributions like #AstroVim, #NVimChad, #LazyVim or simply moving to other editors like #Helix or #Kakoune because the configuration and/or the ecosystem became a burden to manage.
Maybe, they have too many plugins and missed the power of the close-to-vanilla editor?
I've a dozen hand-picked plugins and have been fine for years.
Agreed it's not shinny, but it works damn well and never breaks.
@PacoVelobs i think things become messy when you want coc/lsp features, i still manage my own config, with vim-lsp-settings, but finding the right combination of things and maintain it can be tedious, not all the plugins i use are life-changing but i'm not sure i want to agressively go smaller, they are usually quite helpful https://github.com/tshirtman/vim_config/blob/main/plugin/plug-list.vim
@PacoVelobs@tshirtman I think that most people leaving Vim/Nvim know exactly what LSP is and how it is an essential feature that should be supported out of the box without hundreds of Lua lines and breaking plugin changes.
@PacoVelobs@tshirtman I guess, for these devs, Vim/Nvim are fine then since they probably use it as a plain editor like Notepad++. LSP, autocompletion etc. are bloat? XD
Or they just use an Nvim distro as is.
@PacoVelobs@mo8it but they don't want/need completion/symbol lookups/docs or are they using methods for that that we used before lsp was a thing? (e.g ctags, omnicompletion, etc)
I can live without these, sure, but i'm definitetly happy LSP exists and give more powerful solutions than ctags and friends.
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