FlashDevelop vs Neovim

FlashDevelop comes without any cost.

FlashDevelop has first-class support for Haxe development, the open source toolkit based on a modern programming language and cross-platform library.

FlashDevelop's code completion is pretty good.

Although everyone claims Flash is dead, it's still quite useful for game developers due to its rapid compile and run times, as well as its great debugging functionality with FlashDevelop.

While it's project template system is not the best compared to it's competitors, it still is decent and is a good way to generate some boilerplate code.

FlashDevelop has XML/HTML completion aside from code completion.

It's windows only, but has tremendous support from plugin developers and a dedicated team that's been developing it for close to 10 years.

FlashDevelop provides very efficient debugging features.

This is very useful for carrying out high-speed HTML coding and editing.

FlashDevelop facilitates project compilation.

Although the code generation can't really be called top-notch, it's decent and sufficient for most developers.

NeoVim was a complete rewrite of Vim, with new features added and underlying issues resolved thanks to the Vim code base. The keybindings and configuration are the same as Vim, so the switch can be pretty simple.

The core text editor is "headless", meaning it's detached from the user-interface so other programs can hook into it. This enables better integration with IDEs and browsers, where "Vim mode" has typically been a poor substitute because it was a partial rewrite or a partial port at best. One of the advantages of Vim has always been ubiquity and Neovim makes it even more ubiquitous.

Vim plugins have always been useful, but tied to specific languages. Neovim's architecture provides better separation between plugins and the core product, so that plugins are completely flexible and can be written in any language.

This avoids the user having to make any installations.

The core functionality is handled apart from the UI, meaning that Neovim can be embedded into any other GUI system, such as Atom.

Not many editors can open such a large text file so quickly.

New neovim editor instance starts instantly and you can have multiple editors open at the same time, because id does not require a lot of memory to run.

Don't believe it? Try typing vimtutor in your command line right now.

Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh.

As a refactor over Vim, Neovim has greatly improved its code base. For example, some functionality is handled by libuv, the same code base that powers Node.js.

Some typical configurations most of VIM users make are default in Neovim.

Vim gets stronger every time command-line tools get stronger. This isn't even it's the final form.

I don't like having dotfiles or dotdirs in my homefolder unless they're needed. Configs should be in the .config dir in their respective folder.

This makes editing multiple files at once, moving code around so easy.