I used neovim because it felt way faster by default. I think treesitter runs circles around what classic vim is using to highlight syntax. That said, I never used both beyond basics, thus no horror stories either.

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sdcfgy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I haven't noticed any performance issues in vim to start with. It was fast on a 75MHz pentium for me. The syntax highlighting, same. No issues. I don't always use that though because I can't be bothered to set up anything much past the basic config.

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flohofwoe an hour ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC vim became really slow with the combination of large source files (thousands of lines of code) and language server plugins (e.g. code completion and live error squiggles).

	▲	sdcfgy an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I had a C program that was a single file 140,000 lines long back then. No issues.
	▲	WesolyKubeczek an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I was using vim-enhanced as red hat-based distro installed it. No customization. No customization of nvim either. I often use vim or nvim on disposable machines, so persistent undo is something very low on my list of things I want.

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everforward an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

At one point vim lacked asynchronous plugins. If a plugin was running a builder or linter it locked the editor up (from what I recall).

That fell apart when people wanted vim to do some more modern IDE kind of things like all the “… on save” stuff (build on save, test, lint, etc). I think LSP support is native in neovim as well.

I believe vim merged asynchronous plugin support a while back though, so I’m not sure how different they really are anymore.

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sdcfgy an hour ago | parent [-]

That seems like solving the wrong problem.

Just run make from another terminal...

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loeg 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

It was a real problem, but as GP already mentioned, Vim has integrated some version of it since Vim 8 (2016), probably at least somewhat motivated by NeoVim (forked 2014).

https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/

	▲	sdcfgy 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I hadn't noticed.