Neovim v0.9.0 released, an extensible text editor based on Vim

Neovim v0.9.0 has been released.

Major changes:

• Add @genericsupport for lua2dox.lua
• Add support for optional parameters to lua2dox
• Add support for specified types to lua2dox
• Mention ":help news" in introduction #20674
• Support ":write ++p" to create parent directory  #20835
• Add vim.secure.read()
• vim.inspect_pos,vim.show_pos,:Inspect
• $NVIM_APPNAME #22128
• Support trying to recover from lost tempdir #22573
• Add tovim.filetype.get_option()
• Added vim.treesitter.language.get_filetypes()( #22643 )
• Support functions passed to defaulttable to accept arguments ( #22839 )
• ……

See the release notes for details .

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Neovim is a fork of Vim aimed at improving the codebase, allowing easier API implementation, improving user experience and plugin implementation. Neovim has 30% less source code than Vim.

Its goals are:

• Refactor code to improve maintenance
• Implement new advanced features
• Showcasing a better and more powerful plugin system
• The open development model accepts contributions at any time, and the acceptance criteria are also very clear.

characteristic:

• Modern GUI
• Access API from any language including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust
• Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator
• Asynchronous job control
• Shared data (shada) between multiple editor instances.
• Support XDG base directory
• Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins