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>>segfau+(OP)
I remind you, again, that vi, gcc, as, ld, and make have no telemetry, launch few (if any) processes, do not need GB of RAM, and work well.

>>dmitry+Jc
I am a die hard VIM user. VIM is a text editor, not an IDE. You can I many D tools into it's E, but it remains a text editor with disparate tools.

>>dotanc+3h
What is there in an IDE today, that is missing from (n)vim? With the advent of DAP and LSP servers, I can't find anything that I would use a "proper" IDE for.

>>63stac+Ji
- debuggers

- popup context windows for docs (kind of there, but having to respect the default character grid makes them much less capable and usually they don't allow further interaction)

- contextual buttons on a line of code (sure, custom commands exist, but they're not discoverable)

- "minimap"

>>virapt+Vj

  > debuggers

Parent mentioned

  >> DAP

Here's the docs[0]

  > popup context windows for docs

These are called "balloon"s[1]. Plenty of people have setups for things like docs (press "K") or other things (By default "K" assumes a man page)

  > contextual buttons on a line of code

I don't know what this means, can you explain?

  > minimap

Do you mean something like this?[2] Personally, I use tagbar[3] as I like using ctags and being able to jump around in the project.

The "minimap" is the only one here that isn't native. You can also have the file tree on the left if you want. Most people tend to use NerdTree[4], but like with a lot of plugins, there's builtins that are just as good. Here's the help page for netrw[5], vim's native File Explorer

Btw, this all works in vim. No need for neovim for any of this stuff. Except for the debugger, this stuff has been here for quite some time. The debugger has been around as a plugin for awhile too. All this stuff has been here since I started using vim, which was over a decade ago (maybe balloons didn't have as good of an interface? Idk, it's been awhile)

[0] https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/debugger.html

[1] https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'balloon...

[2] https://github.com/wfxr/minimap.vim

[3] https://github.com/preservim/tagbar

[4] https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree

[5] https://vimhelp.org/pi_netrw.txt.html#netrw