Neovim 0.12 Release with the Core Team

In this episode, I’m joined by members of the Neovim core team to talk about the Neovim 0.12 release, the biggest new features, project direction, AI, workflows, plugins, and why people still use Neovim in a world full of AI editors and modern IDEs.

This is not just a Neovim 0.12 feature overview. It’s also a conversation to help people get to know the humans behind the project. We talk about what changed in Neovim 0.12, how the release came together, what maintainers care about, how they personally use Neovim, and where they see Neovim going next.

We talk about Neovim 0.12 features, multicursor, the new intro screen, the new build system, UI improvements, Ghostty progress bar support, checkhealth, bug reports, :restart, tmux-related workflows, terminal rendering, Doom in Neovim, LazyVim and Neovim 0.12, AI in Neovim, and more.

If you use Neovim, Vim, LazyVim, Ghostty, tmux, or you’re just curious why people still care so much about terminal-based editors, this episode should be for you.

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Guests in this episode:

Justin Keyes, Neovim lead maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/justinmk

Maria Solano, Neovim core maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/MariaSolOs

Gregory Anders, Neovim core maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/gpanders

bfredl, Neovim core maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/bfredl

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Video:

https://youtu.be/EiBg91LTOYk

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:00:59 - What is Neovim?

00:06:45 - Why people still use Neovim with so many other options?

00:14:31 - How much AI are you integrating into Neovim?

00:17:21 - How is the money (donations) side of things going for Neovim?

00:19:44 - Who is Bfredl (Full time Neovim Employee, living the dream)

00:22:17 - Who is Maria Solano - MariaSolOs

00:23:37 - Who is Gregory Anders - gpanders

00:25:32 - What about Mitchell Hashimoto's Libghostty

00:29:12 - Who is Justin Keyes?

00:31:45 - What about multicursor?

00:33:13 - Justin asking: What do you see as the project direction?

00:43:04 - Bredl throwing Justin under the bus. Multicursor demo

00:44:12 - New Intro screen demo

00:46:37 - Ok, now really multicursor

00:50:11 - bredl demo: the new build system

00:53:24 - Maria demos

00:57:32 - How do I upgrade to neovim 0.12 as a mac virgin?

00:58:19 - What about LazyVim users and Neovim 0.12?

00:59:02 - Frontend andies that need to see their colors

01:01:12 - gpanders demo

01:02:01 - Progress bar when using Ghostty

01:04:12 - nvim_open_term to show rendered terminal output without escape sequences

01:06:06 - Playing Doom in Neovim

01:08:32 - Kitty scrollback works with neovim 0.12 no plugins

01:09:28 - Justin demo, super K for help files

01:12:29 - Checkhealth, bug report on GitHub

01:14:16 - UI 2 overview

01:19:07 - How does :restart work?

01:19:50 - Tmux functionality, attach, detach, etc