Discover the future of software from the people making it happen.Listen to some of the smartest developers we know talk about what they're working on, how they're trying to move the industry forward, and what you can learn from it. You might find the solution to your next architectural headache, pick up a new programming language, or just hear some good war stories from the frontline of technology.Join your host Kris Jenkins as we try to figure out what tomorrow's computing will look like the best way we know how - by listening directly to the developers' voices.
Neovim: Creating, Curating and Customising your Ideal Editor (with TJ DeVries)
TJ DeVries is a core contributor to Neovim and several of its most interesting sub-projects, and he joins us this week to go in depth into how Neovim got started, how it’s structured, and what a truly programmable editor has to offer programmers who want the perfect environment.
Along the way we look at what we can learn from Neovim’s successful fork of the 30-year old codebase from Vim, how it still collaborates with the original project, and what putting Lua at the heart of the system has done for casual tinkerers and hardcore plugin writers alike.
Not everyone will come away from this discussion wanting to switch editors, but I’m sure you’ll get a newfound appreciation for digging deeper into the developer tools you use everyday.
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Neovim: https://neovim.io/
Neovim Kickstarter: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
Kickstarter walkthrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8C0Cq9Uv9o
A directory of Neovim plugins: https://dotfyle.com/
Vimscript’s definition of true and false: https://vimhelp.org/eval.txt.html#Boolean
TJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/teej_dv
TJ on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/teej_dv
TJ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv
Kris on Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@krisajenkins
Kris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/
Kris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisajenkins
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