nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Recommended between 2025-10-10 and 2026-05-23. Last pushed 2026-10-05.
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What hackers say
“what I would suggest for anyone who is a long time vim user is to check out kickstart. https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim”
— zoidb, 2025-10-10 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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The bloat of the neovim distributions are real and what I would suggest for anyone who is a long time vim user is to check out kickstart. https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim , specifically the modular fork https://github.com/dam9000/kickstart-modular.nvim which will give you a great (minimal) starting point
Criticism
“your treesitter auto install makes a common mistake”
— c-hendricks, 2026-05-23 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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…ediate", "vim.schedule", and "VimEnter + vim.schedule" lazy modes), plugin specs / setup functions are colocated, and using vim.packs unused `data` for config merging and it works well enough. Also, your treesitter auto install makes a common mistake: vim file type and treesitter grammar names don't match up. IE a .tsx file has a vim filetype of `typescriptreact` while the treesitter parser is named "tsx". You'll need something like this https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim/blob/cfdc17be3ae1607d4427332de0b29d556f9dda13/init.lua#L926 , and there's still the note that the `vim.treesitter.language.get_lang` call isn't really doing anything, since that function returns whatever is passed …
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