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Neovim vs SpaceVim: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is SpaceVim? Like spacemacs, but for vim. SpaceVim is a Modular configuration, a bundle of custom settings and plugins, for Vim. It got inspired by spacemacs.

Neovim and SpaceVim are primarily classified as "Text Editor" and "Tools for Text Editors" tools respectively.

Neovim and SpaceVim are both open source tools. It seems that Neovim with 31.8K GitHub stars and 2.31K forks on GitHub has more adoption than SpaceVim with 11.3K GitHub stars and 946 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Neovim

Pros of SpaceVim

31
Modern and more powerful Vim
27
Fast
22
Asynchronous plugins
20
Stable
18
Edit text fast
15
Vim plugins work out of the box
15
Great community
9
Embedable
8
Built-in terminal support
8
Unix-like
4
Plugins in any language
2
External GUIs
2
Extremely customizable
2
Great Colorschemes

4
Easy to get started with
4
Easy to update
3
Attractive default theme
3
Realtime Guide
2
Setting up language servers just works
2
Better default

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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.

What is SpaceVim?

SpaceVim is a Modular configuration, a bundle of custom settings and plugins, for Vim. It got inspired by spacemacs.

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What are some alternatives to Neovim and SpaceVim?

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Kakoune

Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones. Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Spacemacs

Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features. Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor.

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