Moving Away from Neovim

In April 2025, I wrote a blog post about switching from Visual Studio Code to Neovim as my main editor. The post has a section about GNU Emacs, with me mentioning not completely ruling out the possibility of me using Emacs one day. A year later, the day has come: I am officially an Emacs user. Why I am Moving Away from Neovim Permalink to section 'Why I am Moving Away from Neovim' # Unfortunately, the circumstances that compelled me to move away from Neovim were an ugly one. For more than a year, Neovim with the LazyVim setup had successfully replaced Visual Studio Code for me, and thus I was a happy user of Neovim throughout the past year. I used Neovim every day, and it has been indispensable in my web and software development workflow that revolves around the terminal. Then, on 28 August 2026, I woke up to upsetting news that Neovim is run by fascist sympathisers. Someone opened an issue on the GitHub repository of Neovim's website to raise concern about Neovim's website including…