Neovim vs Vim: What are the differences?

Developers describe Neovim as "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. On the other hand, Vim is detailed as "Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing". 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.

Neovim and Vim can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

Some of the features offered by Neovim are:

• More powerful plugins
• Better GUI architecture
• First-class support for embedding

On the other hand, Vim provides the following key features:

• Vertically Split Windows
• Vimdiff
• Folding

"Modern and more powerful Vim" is the primary reason why developers consider Neovim over the competitors, whereas "Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)" was stated as the key factor in picking Vim.

Neovim is an open source tool with 32K GitHub stars and 2.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Neovim's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Vim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 850 company stacks & 890 developers stacks; compared to Neovim, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.