Neovim in 2026: A Practical Setup for People Who Also Have Work to Do

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Neovim has a reputation, and not entirely an unfair one: the editor you spend a weekend configuring instead of using. I’ve lost those weekends. I’ve also come out the other side with an editor I genuinely prefer to anything else, and the good news is that in 2026 you don’t need to lose the weekend any more. The ecosystem has matured into a handful of plugins that do the heavy lifting, and a sensible config is a few hundred lines of readable Lua. This is the setup I’d give someone who wants a capable editor and also, crucially, has actual work to do.

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Neovim in 2026: A Practical Setup for People Who Also Have Work to Do