Simplicity in Editors

Two things I’ve read/seen recently which have served as a huge inspiration to me:

Mitch Hashimoto talking about his austere editor setup. And yobibyte talking about his plugin free neovim setup.

These talks inspired me to make the full jump over to Neovim. Admittedly, I’m using LSPs and Treesitter a few other plugins but it’s a big step back from the full featured setup of Zed or Sublime that I was running before. I’m still in the “this is hard” phase but I think that moving a bit slower and focusing on each line as opposed to all the jumping around I did before will, ultimately, give me a deeper understanding of the codebase and the discipline to keep bigger mental models in my head.

Travis Fantina @tfantina