The story
As a NeoVim users, I have been "asked" why on earth I use NeoVim for my daily driver for building products and doing some general programming. I've given a lot of various answers over time, start from boasting about the performance benefits, the flex of not touch my mouse, and so on.
But over the time, as I grown my understanding, as I widen my view of this world, I have found few key reasons that I might think are why I keep sticking on using NeoVim.
I'd like to make this journals as my go to answer if in the future some peoples are asking me why I do the way I do. Not because I don't want to answering them. But, I'd like to give them the most thorough, clear, and concise answers possible.
I "own" it
I my self am not the creator of Vim or NeoVim, I am not that old (sorry, Bram✌️). But, since NeoVim itself, after the installation, will only gives you the bare minimum things (like really minimum), I have to add some plugins, configure it, and manage it to be able to use it as I want to be.
I think the last sentences are speaks a lot: ... as I want it to be.
Building, configuring, and managing my tools, that as a Software Engineer use in your day-to-day life makes me always feels excited everytime I open my terminal and spins up my NeoVim. It always prompt me to ask my self: "Ah, what should I code today?".
My setups are so personalised for me that's why it is called as a "Personalised Development Environment".
It prompts me to learn more
I've never heard about LSP before, but I have to configure the LSP on my own editor.
I've never heard about AST, parser or any other cool computer science terms before. But I have to be at least have some grasps on them in order to understand how my editor works.
it's fun
i personally realised that building your pde is requires time and energy. i can gives you all of the technical advantages and try to convince you to join the bandwagon. but, if you ask me to why i keep doing this, is because it is fun for me.
I can spend my night just to choose the best colorscheme that suits my need and liking. It was fun.
I can spend some time on figuring out the best key-bindings for my frequent tasks. It was fun.
Should you try?
Yes! But, in the end I realised that the meost important thing is that you enjoy what you do. If you think you much more comfortable working in Visual Studio Code, in IntelliJ, or anything else (even Notepad), go for it.