Spacemacs vs Vim-Plug: What are the differences?

What is Spacemacs? Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and Vim!*. 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..

What is Vim-Plug? A minimalist Vim plugin manager. A minimalist Vim plugin manager.

Spacemacs and Vim-Plug can be categorized as "Tools for Text Editors" tools.

Some of the features offered by Spacemacs are:

• Batteries Included
• Nice UI
• Excellent ergonomics

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

• Easier to setup: Single file. No boilerplate code required.
• Easier to use: Concise, intuitive syntax
• Super-fast parallel installation/update (requires +ruby)

"Advanced support for Vim key bindings" is the primary reason why developers consider Spacemacs over the competitors, whereas "Simple" was stated as the key factor in picking Vim-Plug.

Spacemacs and Vim-Plug are both open source tools. Spacemacs with 18.1K GitHub stars and 4.45K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Vim-Plug with 15.2K GitHub stars and 683 GitHub forks.