LazyVim, my favourite neovim distro

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:10:01 +0200

In the previous article I showed you how I started my journey with Vim and briefly mentioned that I personally use the LazyVim distribution. Today I would like to explain, step by step, what all of that means, show you the list of plugins I have installed, and describe how I organize my work in this environment.

What is Neovim? Link to heading

As we can read on the project’s homepage, it is a hyperextensible text editor based on Vim. When looking for more information, we can also come across the official GitHub repository, which expands on that description and points out that the goal of the project is to strongly rebuild the base Vim experience in order to make it easier and more inviting for more people to contribute, spread the work across more developers, allow advanced user interfaces to be added without too much interference in the application’s core, and improve extensibility. That last part was achieved by adding support for Lua alongside vimrc, which led to a literal explosion of the ecosystem. More and more people started writing their own plugins adding new functionality, until we reached a point where, with their help, Neovim can practically be turned into a full-fledged programming environment with syntax highlighting, suggestions, interfaces for debugging code and running tests, and even integration with AI agents.

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LazyVim, my favourite neovim distro

What is Neovim? Link to heading