Alex's DevLog

My Minimalist Neovim Setup for 2026

I finally declared bankruptcy on my bloated init.vim and started from scratch using Lua. Over the years, I had accumulated dozens of plugins I no longer understood or used.

By stripping away heavy IDE-like plugins and focusing on native LSP integrations via `lazy.nvim`, my editor loads in under 30 milliseconds while retaining full autocomplete and syntax highlighting functionality.

-- The core of my lazy.nvim bootstrap
local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({ "git", "clone", "--filter=blob:none", "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git", lazypath })
end
vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)

Sometimes less really is more. Keeping the toolchain minimal reduces cognitive load and keeps you focused on the actual code.