I've been using vim and neovim for over 15 years with many 10s of plugins and I can probably count on one or two hands when an update has caused problems.
Also use Arch for about as long.
It's so odd to me when someone says that updates break their vim or Arch frequently.
There are so many threads about it on /r/neovim that people have started to ask just which plugins actually work together cohesively without breaking [0], something that is not asked about for VSCode. Just go through their "Needs Help" flair and you'll see lots of issues [1]. For me, I also use tens of plugins but inevitably something breaks at least once every couple of weeks.
just use lazyvim[1] and be done with it! some people takes care of the compatibility and they are probably more competent than you (i mean a newcomer who starts writing their nvim config)
One of those threads is about lazy.nvim, not lazyvim. The other is a question about what to do after accidentally installing lazyvim with the wrong shell on windows, not about plugin updates breaking things.
Lazyvim is powered by lazy.nvim, at some point it'll break. These are example posts, you can feel free to go through reddit for more examples but yes Neovim does routinely break more for me than VSCode ever does, which is basically never.
it never has been my experience! i have used lazyvim distro for the last year or so and run some :Lazy update for time to time and usually i just need to close neovim and restart and it will all be working well..
I think i had an issue when they moved to conform.nvim from the deprecated language server based method but that's maybe about it (I deleted the nvim cache and it was all good after)
Your anecdote does not somehow counter dozens of others that clearly exist across the internet. Just because it works for you does not mean it works across the board.
I keep hearing of bugs and breaking changes in neovim, with no sign of it affecting the upstream vim. I am a little frustrated that neovim could give people a bad impression of vim from a stability/compatibility standpoint. Unlike emacs and atom, where you can modify the editor fundamentally, vim is extended with sandboxed scripting language(s) (I assume the same is true with neovim as well), so there's no fundamental reason why an update should break your plugins. Conflicts can occur due to overlapping hooks, but VSCode has the same problem. To be clear, I'm not suggesting people switch their text editor.
Would love to hear from a more seasoned vim user if I'm missing some egregious stumbles in vim's updates that affected their workflow.
