In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with TJ DeVries about his work on Neovim, programming in Lua, the benefits of RPC, live streaming your work day, and PDE.

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Show Notes

• 00:36 Welcome
• 01:13 Guest introduction
• Teej_dv on Twitter

TJ Devries

Teej_DV on Twitch

TJ on YouTube

Telescope on GitHub

Neovim on GitHub

Syntax 508 with The Primeagan

03:15 The difference between Vim and Neovim

06:14 Why did you choose to write in Lua?

Lua

Luajit

13:26 What is adapative UI in Neovim?

17:38 Lunarvim and alternatives

Fvim

LunarVim

20:24 Personalized development environment PDE

PDE

Firenvim

22:40 Sponsor: FireHydrant

23:21 Benefits of RPC

30:34 Is working on Neovim your job?

Sponsor Neovim

Sourcegraph

31:30 What is your approach to streaming?

34:11 Did you go to school for computer science?

39:12 Sponsor: Gatsby

39:46 Supper Club questions

System76

Pop

Dactyl Manuform Keyboard Kit

Jetbrains Mono

49:52 Sponsor: Hasura

50:47 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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