hyperextensible Vim-based text editor

Features

Extensible

• API is first-class: discoverable, versioned, documented.
• MessagePack structured communication enables extensions in any language.
• Remote plugins run as co-processes, safely and asynchronously.
• GUIs, IDEs, web browsers can --embed Neovim as an editor or script host.
• Lua plugins are easy to create just like Vimscript plugins. Your config can live in init.lua!
• AST-producing parsing engine enables faster, more accurate syntax highlighting, code navigation, refactoring, text objects, and motions.

Usable

• Builtin LSP client for semantic code inspection and refactoring (go-to definition, "find references", format, …)
• Strong defaults
• Works the same everywhere: one build-type, one command
• Modern terminal features such as cursor styling, focus events, bracketed paste
• Builtin terminal emulator

Drop-in Vim

• Fully compatible with Vim's editing model and Vimscript v1.
• Start with :help nvim-from-vim if you already use Vim.