Why I Ditched Modern IDEs for Neovim (And What It Taught Me About Coding)
Six months ago, I made a decision that felt borderline reckless: I uninstalled VS Code, my trusty code companion for five years, and switched to Neovim. In other words I did rm -rf vscode; nvim . I’m a full time SWE working on projects with different languages and setups, So this was not just a casual experiment, It was a hard pivot that suddenly reduced my productivity. I spent weekends and after-work time to tweak configs, Figuring out Lua syntax and muttering curses LSPs. I tried and I could adopt with it, It taught me great lessons about coding efficiency, tooling, project structure, file browsing and many more. ...