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🚀 LunarVim -> LazyVim

May 09, 2024 · 2 min read · 399 words
:tags neovim tooling

I use Neovim as my IDE for a long time, mainly for Rust, Python, C, Go, Lua and the usual markup languages and configuration management such has YAML, JSON, Toml and Mardown.

I all started by porting my incredibly old (10+ years) and complicated Vim configuration to Neovim, all implemented in vimscript. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE 🔥..

Later on I discovered you can configure Neovim using Lua and I fell in love with it.

I built a bloated and complex configuration in Lua, based on the LunarVim distribution and inspired on the great work of @abzcoding, piling up to a ton of code and customizations:

❯_sh›11 lines
  1❯❯❯ ~/.homesick/repos/lvim/home/.config/lvim $ tokei .
  2===============================================================================
  3 Language            Files        Lines         Code     Comments       Blanks
  4===============================================================================
  5 JSON                    8          804          804            0            0
  6 Lua                    76         9900         8668          549          683
  7 TOML                    2           55           43            0           12
  8 Vim script             13          425          361           33           31
  9===============================================================================
 10 Total                  99        11184         9876          582          726
 11===============================================================================

Unfortunately LunarVim is not being actively maintained and I had several issues maintaining such a complex configuration, so I started looking at alternatives and into only implementing configurations and utilities for the functionalities I use daily.

I tried out Astronvim, but it uses a lot of plugins I don't like for important functionalities such has UI and buffers.

This Github issue pointed me at LazyVim and I fell in 💗 again: it is properly maintained by @folke, the author of many plugins I use and love and after a couple of evenings of work, I was able to port all my configuration to LazyVim and I now have a faster and more consistent experience in multiple languages.

On top of this, it's less code to maintain 🤩. It's still a lot, but what the heck, Neovim is what helps me pay the bills 💸!

❯_sh›11 lines
  1❯❯❯ ~/.config/nvim $ tokei .
  2===============================================================================
  3 Language            Files        Lines         Code     Comments       Blanks
  4===============================================================================
  5 JSON                    7          892          892            0            0
  6 Lua                    48         3864         3516          136          212
  7 Markdown                1           24            0           16            8
  8 TOML                    1            3            3            0            0
  9===============================================================================
 10 Total                  57         4783         4411          152          220
 11===============================================================================

The look and feel is GREAT!

Alpha, the startup / welcome dashboard with recent files, quick actions and sessions and a cool banner 🤩

alpha

Developing in Rust with files and tests panels and LSP completion

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All the my configuration is open source and you can take what you need from it on Github!

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