Editor Setup

Below are my recommended plugin managers and plugins for effective, lightweight programming setups with the text editors Neovim, Vim, VS Code, and Atom. For Neovim/Vim setups, also see Terminal Setup.

Neovim >=0.5 (Fast)

LogoGitHub - neovim/neovim: Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usabilityGitHub
Repo with download instructions

Plugin Managers (Choose One)

LogoGitHub - Shougo/dein.vim: Dark powered Vim/Neovim plugin managerGitHub
Fast plugin manager but not easy to install
LogoGitHub - savq/paq-nvim: 🌚 Neovim package managerGitHub
Lua-based fast plugin manager but simplistic (lacks some features like lazy loading)
LogoGitHub - wbthomason/packer.nvim: A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive configGitHub
Lua-based fairly fast plugin manager

Plugins

LogoGitHub - nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter: Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layerGitHub
Lua-based versatile and fast incremental language parser that builds and updates syntax trees in real time
LogoGitHub - neovim/nvim-lspconfig: Quickstart configurations for the Nvim LSP clientGitHub
Lua-based fast and extensible LSP
LogoGitHub - hrsh7th/nvim-compe: Auto completion Lua plugin for nvimGitHub
Lua-based fast autocompletion that pairs well with the LSP above
LogoGitHub - Aryansh-S/fastdark.vim: A minimalist One Dark color scheme for Neovim and Vim (use with Neovim Treesitter or Vim Polyglot)GitHub
Fast and simple One Dark color scheme with syntax highlighting
LogoGitHub - lifepillar/vim-gruvbox8: A simplified and optimized Gruvbox colorscheme for VimGitHub
Fast Gruvbox color scheme with syntax highlighting
LogoGitHub - mizlan/termbufm: Lightweight Terminal Buffer Manager for Neovim.GitHub
Fast and simple embedded terminal "compile and run" implementation, extensible to any language
LogoGitHub - tpope/vim-commentary: commentary.vim: comment stuff outGitHub
Fast and simple commenting plugin
LogoGitHub - JoosepAlviste/nvim-ts-context-commentstring: Neovim treesitter plugin for setting the commentstring based on the cursor location in a file.GitHub
Lua-based comment enhancer for the above plugin (you can make c/cpp use // instead).
LogoGitHub - suy/vim-context-commentstring: Vim plugin that sets the value of ‘commentstring’ to a different value depending on the region of the file you are in.GitHub
Only get this if you specifically want to comment embedded Lua in Vim (useless if you just use init.lua)
LogoGitHub - romainl/vim-cool: A very simple plugin that makes hlsearch more useful.GitHub
Fast and simple plugin that makes searching more manageable

Vim >=8 (Fast)

LogoGitHub - vim/vim: The official Vim repositoryGitHub
Repo with download instructions

Plugin Managers (Choose One)

LogoGitHub - Shougo/dein.vim: Dark powered Vim/Neovim plugin managerGitHub
Fast plugin manager but not easy to install
LogoGitHub - junegunn/vim-plug: Minimalist Vim Plugin ManagerGitHub
Somewhat fast plugin manager, easy to install

Plugins

LogoGitHub - sheerun/vim-polyglot: A solid language pack for Vim.GitHub
Versatile language pack, fast but spacious
LogoGitHub - Aryansh-S/fastdark.vim: A minimalist One Dark color scheme for Neovim and Vim (use with Neovim Treesitter or Vim Polyglot)GitHub
Fast and simple One Dark color scheme with syntax highlighting
LogoGitHub - lifepillar/vim-gruvbox8: A simplified and optimized Gruvbox colorscheme for VimGitHub
Fast Gruvbox color scheme with syntax highlighting
LogoGitHub - mizlan/termbufm: Lightweight Terminal Buffer Manager for Neovim.GitHub
Fast and simple embedded terminal "compile and run" implementation, extensible to any language
LogoGitHub - tpope/vim-commentary: commentary.vim: comment stuff outGitHub
Fast and simple commenting plugin
LogoGitHub - romainl/vim-cool: A very simple plugin that makes hlsearch more useful.GitHub
Fast and simple plugin that makes searching more manageable
LogoGitHub - neoclide/coc.nvim: Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.GitHub
Versatile but slow autocompletion and linting

VS Code (Medium)

https://code.visualstudio.com/code.visualstudio.com
Download page

Plugin Manager

Builtin

Plugins

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cppcode.visualstudio.com
Full instructions for C++

Atom (Slow)

LogoAtomAtom
Download page

Plugin Manager

Builtin

Plugins

LogoGitHub - kriscross07/atom-gpp-compiler: An atom package that allows you to compile and run C++ and C within the editor.GitHub
C++-specific compile and run plugin
LogoGitHub - AtomLinter/linter-gcc: Atom-linter extension to lint C/C++ source files using gcc/g++GitHub
C++ linter with diagnostic messages
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