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New comment by bahadiraydin in "Where the goblins came from"

bahadiraydin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:55:53 +0000

exactly

New comment by bahadiraydin in "Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author"

bahadiraydin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:23:52 +0000

Hey, nowadays this setup is very easy to achieve. You can check out my dotfiles at: https://github.com/BahadirAydin/dotfiles/tree/main/private_d...

"Mason" plugin makes it easy to install LSPs, formatters, debuggers locally and built-in LSP integration is seamlessly working currently. (Look at lsp.lua)

There are also language-specific plugins but I'd suggest start with the ones I recommended to you first. It should cover your needs 99% of the time.

New comment by bahadiraydin in "Make HN great again: Neovim vs. IDEs"

bahadiraydin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:19:36 +0000

Today, I tried Zed because it made it to frontpage of HN and a lot of people were praising it in comments.

However, I got lost. Every IDE is different. I felt very restricted. This is not the problem of Zed (or any IDE) but this is how they are compared to hand-crafted Neovim installation. They just can't compare.

Neovim is simple but extensible. I have designed it over years to match my workflow and tools precisely. The specific combinations and the key mappings are hand-crafted for me. This didn't happen overnight, it took me years to build up my Vim usage workflow.

Another thing that makes Neovim irreplaceable for me is, it is terminal native. I'm always on the terminal, usually with multiple tabs and multiple window panes. It gives me so much flexibility. For example I use Kitty terminal emulator, I have 4 tabs open. Neovim, OpenCode, LazyGit, and another window that I just do general tasks...

Also Vim has incredible and active community. I don't know if IDE extensions can be as good as "Obsidian.nvim" plugin for integrating Notes for example.

One winning aspect of IDEs for me is debugging. I never set up a debugging setup with my Neovim installation.

Even, without any plugins, I just like the raw vim experience. I'm used to it -- but each to their own...

New comment by bahadiraydin in "Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author"

bahadiraydin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:59:18 +0000

Good times for being a Vim guy...

New comment by bahadiraydin in "Where the goblins came from"

bahadiraydin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:41:17 +0000

I'd like to see them explain why AI have so distinctive writing style that is very easy to detect most of the time. Even though, it had immense progress in coding, it didn't get better at writing.