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CodePen vs Neovim: What are the differences?

CodePen: An online community for testing and showcasing user-created HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets. It is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, creatively named "pens", and test them; Neovim: Vim's rebirth for the 21st century. Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.

CodePen and Neovim are primarily classified as "Cloud IDE" and "Text Editor" tools respectively.

Neovim is an open source tool with 32.4K GitHub stars and 2.35K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Neovim's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Neovim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 13 company stacks & 132 developers stacks; compared to CodePen, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.

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Pros of CodePen
Pros of Neovim
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      Modern and more powerful Vim
    • 27
      Fast
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      Asynchronous plugins
    • 20
      Stable
    • 18
      Edit text fast
    • 15
      Great community
    • 15
      Vim plugins work out of the box
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      Embedable
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      Unix-like
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      Built-in terminal support
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      Plugins in any language
    • 2
      External GUIs
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      Great Colorschemes
    • 2
      Extremely customizable

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    Cons of CodePen
    Cons of Neovim
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      No support for any other git-server than github
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      What is CodePen?

      It is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, creatively named "pens", and test them.

      What is Neovim?

      Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.

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