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.--------------------------Guests in this episode:Justin Keyes, Neovim lead maintainer GitHub: https://github.com/justinmkMaria Solano, Neovim core maintainer GitHub: https://github.com/MariaSolOsGregory Anders, Neovim core maintainer GitHub: https://github.com/gpandersbfredl, Neovim core maintainer GitHub: https://github.com/bfredl--------------------------Video:https://youtu.be/EiBg91LTOYkWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:00:59 - 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 - MariaSolOs00:23:37 - Who is Gregory Anders - gpanders00:25:32 - What about Mitchell Hashimoto's Libghostty00:29:12 - 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 demo00:44:12 - New Intro screen demo00:46:37 - Ok, now really multicursor00:50:11 - bredl demo: the new build system00:53:24 - Maria demos00:57:32 - 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 colors01:01:12 - gpanders demo01:02:01 - Progress bar when using Ghostty01:04:12 - nvim_open_term to show rendered terminal output without escape sequences01:06:06 - Playing Doom in Neovim01:08:32 - Kitty scrollback works with neovim 0.12 no plugins01:09:28 - Justin demo, super K for help files01:12:29 - Checkhealth, bug report on GitHub01:14:16 - UI 2 overview01:19:07 - How does :restart work?01:19:50 - Tmux functionality, attach, detach, etc