This Week in Neovim #52: packer.nvim is unmaintained with pckr.nvim as a spiritual successor, treesitter query editor added to Neovim core, and floating windows can have a footer
This Week in Neovim #52: packer.nvim is unmaintained with pckr.nvim as a spiritual successor, treesitter query editor added to Neovim core, and floating windows can have a footer
This Week in Neovim 52 with news and updates from the Neovim plugin ecosystem and Neovim core.
This is one thing I hate about Neovim. One year, Packer is what everyone uses, next year it's deprecated. It's like with JavaScript libraries.
This happens all the time with new projects. And yes, I know neovim is not that new anymore, but its development is still very active and a lot of things change, so the whole ecosystem around it will change. This will stabilize in a few years and we'll have fewer and more stable plugin/package managers.
When an ecosystem is new there is a lot of design space to explore. No one knows what the best ideas will be - the only way to find them is to try lots of things. After a while it becomes clearer what the good ideas are, and things settle down. That happened in Javascript when React and Vue became popular. You didn't see a new application framework every month anymore - at least not ones that got a lot of adoption. Exploration shifted to stuff like state-management libraries to use within React. Of course the search for better ideas never stops completely...
Bah, I just started using Neovim a few months ago and finally got my config what I thought was a good place, haven't edited it in a couple weeks, thought I was doing good.
Now I've gotta look at moving everything into something else. Fun.