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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 18:22:34 UTC Bernie

   • Srevin Saju

   I've been using Packer with #neovim, and I had no reason to switch, but several Redditors are recommend Lazy as an next-generation package manager with a very nice UI.

   https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/126fkbu/question_which_plugin_manager_should_i_use_packer/

   Cc: @srevinsaju

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 18:32:21 UTC Bernie

     in reply to

     • Srevin Saju
     • Elijah Manor
     • Ken Brucker

     I looked at the instructions for installation and configuration, and it looks way more complicated than Packer.

     This puts me off, 'cause I feel that plugin installation should work out of the box in #neovim with *zero* lines of Lua configuration.

     But Lazy seems to be going in the opposite direction, doesn't it? 😅

     @sigsegv @elijahmanor @srevinsaju

   • Ken Brucker (sigsegv@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 18:32:23 UTC Ken Brucker

     in reply to

     • Srevin Saju

     @codewiz @srevinsaju Recently switched to neovim and Lazy has been working well for me.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 05:50:32 UTC Bernie

     in reply to

     • Srevin Saju
     • Elijah Manor
     • Ken Brucker

     I just upgraded to #neovim 0.9 and took the opportunity to switch to Lazy.

     The UI is really nice and it wasn't hard to setup. Yeah, I won't miss Packer 👍

     @elijahmanor @sigsegv @srevinsaju

   • Elijah Manor (elijahmanor@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 05:50:33 UTC Elijah Manor

     in reply to

     • Srevin Saju
     • Ken Brucker

     @codewiz @sigsegv @srevinsaju I agree that it'd be great if Neovim had a much richer system for plugin management, but for now there is packer and lazy. The amount of code for both is about the same once you add all the bootstrap stuff. See gist for a comparison https://gist.github.com/elijahmanor/a463b5b2388919549d69102d9dd0dd2e