What would encourage a programmer to migrate to a new text editor or IDE? Developing in VSCode vs Zed vs Neovim.
February 20, 2025•873 words
It is hard to migrate away from an editor or IDE[1] when you invested a lot of time and effort in settings things up the way you like.
For developers and software engineers to even consider using a new editor, seems like one of two things must happen:
It has at least one amazing, unique feature (sometimes called a "killer feature").
Migrating is extremely easy and cheap, without requiring a lot of work.
Neovim is a great example. It had some nice features like async (rpc) extensions, better...
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