It's like spacemacs vs. emacs - do you want to build your own custom editing experience?

a lot of the time I prefer the freedom to only include parts of a dev environment that I'm using

@dominicm what's your experience using node-host nvim plugins? Is it a stable platform to write tools with?

@mikepjb node-host has broken quite a lot, @snoe has had a lot of problems keeping his cljs plugins stable on it. Although, I think most of the breakage was from msgpack encoding bugs which are ironed out now. I don't think there's been much breakage in a while now.

ah good, it seems like an ideal way to write an nrepl client

Definitely a great idea, with callbacks for each incoming message & the streams api make it pretty ideal.

The drawback is a dependency on the npm/node ecosystem being installed on your system.

that seems fine

It's not a huge problem, agreed. But, Rust/Golang feel tempting in response.

have you taken a look at light table?

Never, why?

@mikepjb I think there's still a problem somewhere in the node-host chain. https://github.com/clojure-vim/nvim-parinfer.js/issues/30#issuecomment-280381472

Oh that is annoying -.-