Open source alternatives to Neovim
One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Neovim does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What Neovim does
- Modal keyboard-driven editingcore
- Plugins and Lua configcore
- Language server support
- Syntax highlighting with tree-sitter
- Runs in the terminal
- Built-in terminal and splits
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 toastAll-in-one terminal IDE with a text editor and developer tooling, written in Go |
Same job, different way63% | 293+4 | 5 days ago | 100% | Uses the terminal | Custom license | |
Covers 0 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Modal keyboard-driven editing; Plugins and Lua config. Not shown: Built-in terminal and splits.See the evidence
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