People who have tried both vim and nvim:
- I have a theory that using `coc.nvim` is still the superior solution even compared to a native LSP. Why? Cause we can siphon from the huge man-hours of development and polish that M$ has put on VSCode. Every time they tweak VSCode, we at downstream, enjoy the benefits. Am I wrong in my assessment?
- Vim's regexp-based syntax highlighting is annoying. So I think nvim+tree-sitter is the better solution on this front
I do recommend that new users just use coc.nvim, but not exactly because of what you said.
Both coc.nvim and the built in LSP implementation use basically the same Language Servers, so whatever updates happen to the server will benefit either approach.
However, coc.nvim DOES have a large community that has built a neatly packaged LSP client framework (and many other tie-ins like completion, snippets, formatting, and things like auto-pairs) that is a much more cohesive experience. The built in LSP is best at providing a solid baseline client for those language servers if you really want to tweak everything to exactly how you want it.
If you like that approach where you don't want to configure everything yourself, coc.nvim is probably the "superior" approach for you.
If you have ever said the word "bloat" unironically on your computer with 64G of RAM, built in might be for you.
If you have ever said the word "bloat" unironically on your computer with 64G of RAM, built in might be for you.
I really just want one config that works on:
* Yes, my Ryzen 5 with 32G of RAM
* My Pinebook Pro with 4G of RAM (and like 3.7G accessible) (and limited storage as well)
* My jump host / gateway VM with 512MB of RAM (and even more limited storage than the PBP)
So pulling down and running node.js to use coc.nvim has never been something I was interested in. Before nvim-lspconfig I used LanguageClient-neovim (a Rust client).
A lot of LSPs are written for node though, like pyright for example (yes, the best python LSP is written in typescript). It's kind of unavoidable to use node at some point if you're using LSPs in your editor.
https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server
Rust analyzer is written in Rust, gopls in Go, clangd in C++, R language server in R, Jsonnet language server in Go, sqls in Go.