What is Neovide?
Neovide is a graphical user interface client designed specifically for the Neovim text editor. It is built using Rust and takes advantage of GPU-accelerated rendering to provide a lightweight and responsive graphical interface for Neovim.
Some of the key features Neovide offers include:
- Hardware-accelerated rendering using OpenGL - This allows Neovide to offload a lot of the rendering work to the GPU for better performance
- Animated scrolling - Scrolling is smooth and animated, rather than jumping instantly like traditional terminal emulators
- Anti-aliased fonts and smoothed cursors - Fonts in Neovide are anti-aliased for clarity on high DPI displays. The cursor is also smoothed using alpha blending for a more polished look
- True color support - Neovide supports 24-bit true color for rich, vibrant syntax highlighting themes
- Minimal resource usage - As an GUI client purpose-built for Neovim, Neovide aims to use as few system resources as possible for the features it provides
- Extensible and themable - It uses a CSS-based theming system and components can be extended or overridden using a domain specific language
In summary, Neovide brings modern graphical user interface enhancements and performance optimizations to Neovim with the goal of providing an accessible, full-featured and customizable GUI without compromising on Neovim's lightweight extensibility.