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valedan | 2 years ago

What does this mean for the future of editors like emacs and (neo)vim? Right now the Copilot plugin for Neovim works pretty much the same as the one for VSCode, but as LLMs get integrated more into IDEs and new workflows are built around them, will the old-school editors be able to keep up? I'm a little worried because I just switched from VSCode to Neovim a few months ago!

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SheinhardtWigCo|2 years ago

This could be the dawn of a new day for the old-school editors. Not to start any wars here, but I could never get the hang of Vim, and that's hardly an unusual complaint. But now, free high-quality personalized "tuition" just became economically viable.

llarsson|2 years ago

Stuff like the Language Server shows that people are interested in making new stuff work well with our old beloved editors. I have faith.

davidkunz|2 years ago

It'll be great if they'd build language servers via the language server protocol, that would be editor agnostic.

spenczar5|2 years ago

Github Copilot actually works through the language server protocol already. Document contents are sent to it and it responds with code completions.

mzz80|2 years ago

Neovim already can’t keep up by itself. The future of vim won’t be as a standalone application, but as a plugin into other IDEs. The support for Neovim and VSCodeVim within VSCode greatly reduces the utility of a standalone app for anything other than edits to very small projects.