Comment by cayley_graph
1 year ago
Agreed. I've been using (n)vim for roughly 8 years now and only touch my config to put in bits of Lua I've hacked together to make my life slightly easier (~10 minutes every few months? I just do it as-needed). I use 5-6 plugins total. I think the most vocal users are probably responsible for the impression of constant churn, because they've got fancy tricked out configs loaded with alpha-quality plugins and probably do need to constantly update it. Nothing against doing that, but it need not be that way!
Yeah, there definitely seems to be quite a bit of churn for people who adopt the newest plugins, and I think that can lead to the impression that Vim and Neovim require constant configuration maintenance. I don’t think the churn is necessarily bad for people interested in spending a lot of time on their configuration because it means there’s a lot of experimentation, which eventually makes its way to the whole community.