Been using some sort of vi for 20-some years now and I’m still not convinced. I suspect it’s got something to do with my configuration. I’ll need to tinker a bit. I think I’ll give it another 20 years then I’ll let you know.

Switching from Vim was a no-brainer. I was on WSL 1, and the Alt/Meta key support was horrendous at the time. Neovim supported it perfectly.

Years later Neovim adopts Lua, I went back and forth between Emacs and Neovim for several months. Neovim stuck, because for some reason it just works. Lua is a little easier to learn and write (before I find the time to sit down and read the elisp manual properly, appreciating the lisp-ness), my Neovim setup had a satisfactory number of features whilst having minimum moving parts. It became easier to maintain. As my current daily driver I don’t need to touch my config for months and it will work.

I also tried helix several weeks ago, it’s great, but it doesn’t support custom snippets and templates, among other things that were essential to the development for some of my projects.

I am not convinced Neovim is best for me, I miss Emacs from time to time. It’s just what I’ve sticked with and I’m happy with it for now.