neovim

Install command: 
brew install neovim

Also known as: nvim

Ambitious Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility

https://neovim.io/

License: Apache-2.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/neovim.json

Formula code: neovim.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.12.6
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

libuv 1.53.0 Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
lpeg 1.1.0 Parsing Expression Grammars For Lua
luajit 2.1.1793383622 Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language
luv 1.53.0-1 Bare libuv bindings for lua
tree-sitter 0.27.1 Incremental parsing library
unibilium 2.1.4 Very basic terminfo library
utf8proc 2.12.0 Clean C library for processing UTF-8 Unicode data
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.4.5 Cross-platform make
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Binaries: nvim

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days225,892
Downloads8,174,457
Analytics install events (30 days)42,078
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Analytics:

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Installs41,51799,105500,787
Installs (--HEAD)5611,6159,325
Installs on Request41,36898,743498,972
Installs on Request (--HEAD)5571,6119,317
Build Errors (--HEAD)37
Build Errors16