AstroNvim
Neovim distribution in Developer tools
People recommend it as a lightweight Neovim setup that works well out of the box and integrates its parts cleanly. Critics find its configuration complex and its debugger support unreliable.
People recommend it as a lightweight Neovim setup that works well out of the box and integrates its parts cleanly. Critics find its configuration complex and its debugger support unreliable.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 73%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good out-of-box setup
“Out of the box it has a lot of well integrated/just works pieces.”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “The vi family” “it's my favourite out-of-box setup”
Comment from 31 Mar 2026 in “AstroNvim” Well integrated components
“Out of the box it has a lot of well integrated/just works pieces.”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “The vi family” “The system composes capabilities into itself nicely, integrates.”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop” Strong overall praise
“AstroNvim has changed both of these so much for me”
Comment from 29 Mar 2026 in “Neovim 0.12.0” “I have also been really impressed with AstroNVim”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “The vi family” “AstroNvim specifically is pretty good”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “How do you use Vim in the era of AI?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Configuration feels complex
“i dislike my experience of configuring astrovim”
Comment from 5 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages” “they all seem needlessly complex”
Comment from 29 Mar 2026 in “Why I love NixOS” “too much hyper-customization”
Comment from 30 Aug 2026 in “Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LazyVim | 39 | 7 | 85% | 11 | — | Approved |
| AstroNvimThis page | 8 | 3 | 73% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
All 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“there wasn't a clear way to install Astro in NixOS”
“The system composes capabilities into itself nicely, integrates.”
“too much hyper-customization”
“It ported my Spacemacs bindings to Astrovim in a few minutes.”
“AstroNvim specifically is pretty good”
“i dislike my experience of configuring astrovim”
“It has all the things I need with the ability to add any extra plugins necessary while using less resources.”
“they were hard to upgrade”
“I have also been really impressed with AstroNVim”
“Out of the box it has a lot of well integrated/just works pieces.”
“I use astronvim as main editor but when I need IDE I switch to Idea.”
“it's my favourite out-of-box setup”
“AstroNvim has changed both of these so much for me”
“they all seem needlessly complex”
“it has a not-so-bad debugger support, when it works...”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.