{"slug": "neovide", "name": "Neovide", "category": "editors", "category_name": "Editors and IDEs", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 2, "warners": 0, "score": 0.533, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2026-04-22", "latest": "2026-04-29", "why": "Starts in a split second. And is super smooth and fast. And fun to work with.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Starts in a split second. And is super smooth and fast. And fun to work with.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Neovide"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 765893619, "item_id": 47868351, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868351", "by": "submeta", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Starts in a split second. And is super smooth and fast. And fun to work with.", "excerpt": "Is this any different to a setup where I use a terminal with tabs and splits and run my favourite editor in one or more panes and several agents (Claude Code and Codex) in several other panes and tabs? Edit: Although I can integrate an agent in NeoVim, I don\u2019t do it. I want to use my editor for just that, and the rest (versioning, agentic coding, git client, etc) in the terminal. 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I tried hard to use it, especially when I decided to migrate away from Emacs. But NeoVim gives me everything I was looking for in Zed: Speed, a polished UI, quick startup, not overloaded. So between Zed and NeoVim I decided for the latter. I use Neovide in GUI and neovim in terminal. I don\u2019t use AI alongside nvim, but claude code helps me configure my config file in lua. So my", "context": "", "use_case": "Neovim GUI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed is 1.0"}, {"id": 766679280, "item_id": 47917455, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917455", "by": "eggy", "date": "2026-04-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Neovide and Lem interchangeably.", "excerpt": "I'm going to download and check out Mine and Coalton. Right now, I use Neovide and Lem interchangeably. However, I am in deep with Shen. I bought a hardcopy of The Book of Shen, 5th Edition, and I still have Peter Kogge's 1991 text, \"The Architecture of Symbolic Computers\". 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