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Evgeni Chasnovski
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Evgeni Chasnovski's personal blog at echasnovski.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Evgeni Chasnovski's Neovim writing, mainly his guide to vim.pack and plugin lazy-loading. One commenter calls the vim.pack guide incredible.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of Evgeni Chasnovski
Most-linked posts?
- A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-29
What Hacker News says?
That's my impression too. However, I might give `vim.pack` a go for the novelty. That being said, there is a way to lazy-load the plugins — Evgeni has a guide for that [1]. The "Load not during startup" variant is really simple with putting `vim.pack.add()` into `vim.schedule()`. The other myriad of options (keys, cmds, event) that lazy.nvim provides would require you to set up appropriate autocommands. It gives me…
Comment linking /blog/2026-03-13-a-guide-to-vim-pack.html
on “Neovim 0.12.0”Submitted A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The folke/lazy.nvim is the most used plugin manager at the time of this writing. And rightly so: it is very capable with lots of features. Ironically, this itself makes it not very suitable to be a part of Neovim as most of the features come with significant code and maintenance complexity. Plus the whole idea of treating lazy loading as the main goal of a plugin manager does not sit well with Neovim core team. ht…
Comment linking /blog/2026-03-13-a-guide-to-vim-pack.html
on “Neovim 0.12.0”Submitted A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHave a look here. This is incredible guide to the `vim.pack`. https://echasnovski.com/blog/2026-03-13-a-guide-to-vim-pack....
Comment linking /blog/2026-03-13-a-guide-to-vim-pack.html
on “Neovim 0.12.0”