16 engineers on Hacker News describe using Neovim first-hand: 4 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“Tried neovim a few times and it is amazing when it works, but the various distros, plugin updates and occasioanal errors made me anxious.”
mixed · personal · imjonse · 2023-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the part I've had the hardest time with is tab/buffer/window management. I never really know what's going to happen when closing tabs or panes.”
regret · personal · roblh · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have switched to neovim and have been using it for the last 5 years... In neovim it can be a PITA.”
mixed · personal · 5 yr · submain · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a tmux+neovim setup that mostly works without any problems (except for random LSP issues at times).”
endorse · personal · tantony · 2023-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now I keep my vimrc simple and use neovim for more complex stuff.”
endorse · personal · Hahhaa · 2020-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the model Neovim uses for input - queuing it on an event loop and handling it asynchronously - is at odds with what we required”
regret · production · bryphe · 2020-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using one in NeoVim for a while for JavaScript and it works pretty good.”
endorse · personal · drbojingle · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Neovim for a while and this was exclusive for a while.”
endorse · personal · brotherjerky · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I created my own harness tcode to leverage tmux and neovim. Have been using it all the time since the beginning of this year.”
neutral · personal · wb14123 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Came from that world, vim, nvim, my dev box is remote, homelab”
neutral · personal · verdverm · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A code editor that I have been using for the past 4 years. It is a neovim distro based upon the ideology of emacs.”
neutral · personal · 4 yr · prollyjethi · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For Neovim users, see also Firenvim [0]. Which I've been using for quite a while now.”
neutral · personal · Normille · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been trying neovim recently, but everything through command line”
neutral · personal · forbidden404 · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Debian's neovim package for the last several months”
neutral · personal · 0.5 yr · tux3 · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Vim for a while (and now neovim)”
neutral · personal · tthayer · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?