While most IDEs or editors offer more or less functionality to emulate Vims basic behavior, it never feels just right. Some features work differently, not at all and good luck with using any of the hundreds of plugins that we all got used to love so much. Neovim however is different. It is a fork of the original, trying to better the development process of the project and going new ways.

This blog post describes my personal journey from Vim to Neovim.