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@shrik3 Do you use anything to run LSPs? ALE?

@whynothugo deoplete has lsp integrations, check out https://github.com/deoplete-plugins

But for c/cpp I have a simpler setup: instead of lsp like clangd, I use deoplete-tag + ctags or rtags

btw it seems the development has moved to ddc.vim but I haven't tried.

@witcher What did you use for LSPs and completions before making the switch?

(not too tangential; me question is because I'm trying to evaluate feature parity of both).

@whynothugo I remember using YouCompleteMe but I was never happy with it. It required me to put commands for compilation or something like that in the installation part of my plugin iirc, I was very irritated by that, especially when it stopped compiling. It was what made me think about (and eventually the reason I did) switching to neovim in the first place because the selection of LSPs was a lot better

@whynothugo as for other features I can remember trying to use: I don't use the built in terminal at all because its much easier for me to open a new terminal using tmux.
The other thing was :tcd iirc, which, unlike :lcd, doesn't exist in vim for some reason, but I haven't used it a lot because it doesn't fit my workflow.
Being able to write configuration using Lua was nice at first but in the end it didn't matter at all because I never touch (and never want to) my configuration anyway.

I can't remember anything else that's different so it probably wasn't worth it at all for me in the end. Maybe that helps

@witcher Lua is really nice for connecting complicated bits together. But a lot of stuff is way shorter and simpler with Vimscript.

I ended up being less of a purist and using a mix of both.