Vim is great at what it does (help you write/change text faster), I just don't think that's the right goal to pursue when it comes to software development.

[–] undu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Still not a substitute for a decent IDE, though.

It is with plugins, however. I've used neovim for years at work and it has LSP capabilities and grammar-based syntax parsing. So it provides lots of IDE-like features on top of its excellent text-editing features. Nevwrmind that it integrates with the terminal much better than IDEs.

So I couldn't disagree more with your statement

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Neovim seems more like an IDE than a text editor from what I've heard of it, yeah. I'm talking about plain old Vim, though.

[–] moormaan@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I use IntelliJ with a vim plugin, so I get the motions, but also an IDE. IntelliJ has excellent terminal support. For Java, there's no better setup.