neovim/neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #15 among API repositories tracked this week, and #15 over the last 30 days; #327 of 2,841 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 12%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 433 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 37% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- A modernized Vim fork that enhances extensibility and usability through a refactored core and advanced API support.
- Enables integration with multiple programming languages and advanced UIs without modifying the core editor.
- Use for developing custom text editor plugins leveraging asynchronous job control and embedded terminal features.
- Use for building language-agnostic editor extensions using its RPC-based API accessible from many languages.
- Use for migrating Vim configurations to a more maintainable and extensible editor environment with modern GUI support.
Should you depend on it?
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License
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Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
See the Introduction wiki page and Roadmap for more information.
See
:help nvim-featuresfor the full list, and:help newsfor noteworthy changes in the latest version!Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found on the Releases page.
Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Gentoo, and more!
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
7.1K+183
Open issues
1.9K+33
Compared with peers in API
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 4, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NdoleStudio/httpsms | 6.0K | +673 | 75 | 48 days ago |
| JoeanAmier/TikTokDownloader | 16.8K | +180 | 75 | 30 days ago |
| mrifqidaffaaditya/WA-AKG | 510 | +127 | 31 | 18 days ago |
| fastapi/fastapi | 103.0K | +0 | 75 | 2 days ago |
| neovim/neovim | 102.6K | +0 | 40 | today |
| BrasilAPI/BrasilAPI | 11.3K | +0 | 45 | — |
| Category median | 11.3K | +127 | 75 | — |
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