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Neovim and Vim Ecosystem Development

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Neovim and Vim Ecosystem Development focuses on enhancing the functionality and usability of the Vim text editor and its variant, Neovim. It involves the development of plugins, configurations, and tools that extend the capabilities of these editors, integrating features like code completion, syntax checking, and theme customization to improve developer productivity and experience.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Justin Keyes
SDE3 at AWS
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Germany
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
5 releases, 3803 reviews, 3601 commits in 8 years 6 months
justinmk/notes
194 commits, 1 PR, 161 pushes in 10 years 6 months
justinmk/vim-sneak
4 releases, 330 commits, 32 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
sublime-text-3
10
zeal
10
ultisnips
10

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Jan Edmund Lazo
IM/IT Programmer/Analyst at Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Canada
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
407 reviews, 2480 commits, 1133 PRs in 4 years 3 months
janlazo/dotvim8
732 commits, 759 pushes, 74 branches in 4 years 4 months
janlazo/neovim
36 commits, 2 PRs, 3926 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Top skills
Score
coc-nvim
10
cli
10
readline
10

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zeertzjq
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Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
3129 reviews, 2309 commits, 5560 PRs in 1 year 10 months
zeertzjq/neovim
7 commits, 12 PRs, 3893 pushes in 1 year
macvim-dev/macvim
170 commits in 1 year 5 months
Top skills
Score
webextension
10
file-manager
10
sudo
10

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4

Björn Linse
Software Developer at Self Employed
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Sweden
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
2 releases, 1437 reviews, 1763 commits in 8 years 1 month
bfredl/neovim
1397 commits, 4829 pushes, 884 branches in 8 years 8 months
neovim/pynvim
32 releases, 6 reviews, 184 commits in 6 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
numba
10
stomp
10
two-way
10

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5

James Mccoy
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
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United States
Rock Star
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
253 reviews, 1440 commits, 1024 PRs in 7 years 4 months
nanotube/supybot_fixes
1442 commits in 8 years 9 months
jamessan/etc-vim
671 commits, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
stdin
10
httpd
10
directories
10

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6

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pavlov
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Russia
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager-known-repositories
1721 commits, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
ZyX-I/neovim
2167 commits, 1473 pushes, 316 branches in 4 years 5 months
neovim/neovim
1422 commits, 151 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
google-fonts
10
neovim
10
vim-plugin
10

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7

Qiming Zhao
Senior Associate, Index Management Equity Core at Solactive
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China
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neoclide/coc.nvim
84 releases, 107 reviews, 5930 commits in 4 years 9 months
neoclide/coc-tsserver
2 reviews, 447 commits, 72 PRs in 4 years 5 months
chemzqm/vimrc
554 commits, 301 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
snippet
10
markers
10
translation
10

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8

Dundar Göc
Operating Systems Engineer at Saab
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Sweden
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
1117 reviews, 617 commits, 2112 PRs in 1 year 7 months
dundargoc/neovim
24 commits, 276 PRs, 16241 pushes in 10 months
neodundar/neovim
1 review, 1104 PRs, 965 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
nix-darwin
10
openvpn
10
ninja
10

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Jesse Duffield
Co-founder/CTO @ Subble | Creator of Lazygit, Lazydocker, Horcrux, and the OK? language at Open Source
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Australia
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
jesseduffield/lazygit
131 releases, 1127 reviews, 3165 commits in 4 years 9 months
jesseduffield/lazydocker
32 releases, 58 reviews, 461 commits in 3 years 7 months
jesseduffield/gocui
19 reviews, 177 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
tui
10
electron
10
visualstudio
10

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10

Daniel Hahler
Software-Entwickler bei INFARM at Selbststandig
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Germany
Rock Star
20 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
blueyed/pytest
1 review, 1263 commits, 978 PRs in 3 years 3 months
pdbpp/pdbpp
2 releases, 11 reviews, 557 commits in 4 years 10 months
neovim/neovim
5 reviews, 560 commits, 839 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
openwisp
10
pdm
10
gpu
10

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11

Christian Clason
Employed at University of Graz
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Austria
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
2171 reviews, 444 commits, 1885 PRs in 3 years 2 months
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
1908 reviews, 99 commits, 2179 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Homebrew/homebrew-core
32 reviews, 112 commits, 194 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
parsing
10
editing
10
luarocks
10

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12

Sean Dewar
1st-class Computer Science Graduate & Open Source Contributor
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
585 reviews, 316 commits, 176 PRs in 2 years 3 months
seandewar/seandewar.github.io
71 commits, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
seandewar/challenge-solutions
580 commits, 4 PRs, 812 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
game-boy
10
coc-extensions
10
language-server-protocol
10

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13

Marco Hinz
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Germany
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mhinz/vim-signify
1 review, 632 commits, 70 PRs in 8 years 3 months
mhinz/vim-startify
4 reviews, 611 commits, 63 PRs in 8 years 1 month
mhinz/vim-galore
5 reviews, 333 commits, 61 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
stdin
10
cvs
10
devicons
10

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Gregory Gregory
Software Engineer at Src
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
gpanders/dotfiles
1 review, 2445 commits, 1374 pushes in 5 years 7 months
neovim/neovim
1378 reviews, 269 commits, 765 PRs in 5 years 5 months
gpanders/vim-medieval
56 commits, 8 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
optimal
10
homebrew
10
cli
10

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15

erw7
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Japan
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
erw7/neovim
1025 commits, 4 PRs, 1177 pushes in 5 years 9 months
neovim/neovim
55 reviews, 269 commits, 210 PRs in 5 years 8 months
erw7/libuv
1 PR, 224 pushes, 120 branches in 3 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
usability
10
nvim
10
neovim-plugin
10

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16

Lewis Russell
Staff Engineer at Arm
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim
7 releases, 111 reviews, 877 commits in 2 years 3 months
lewis6991/dotfiles
520 commits, 666 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 6 months
neovim/neovim
1435 reviews, 256 commits, 810 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Top skills
Score
pylance
10
neovim
10
scrollbar
10

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17

mjlbach
Employed at Stanford University
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Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay
813 commits, 90 PRs, 156 pushes in 2 years 1 month
neovim/nvim-lspconfig
4 releases, 467 reviews, 455 commits in 2 years 5 months
StanfordVL/iGibson
1 release, 486 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Top skills
Score
suse
10
ml
10
nixos-configuration
10

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18

Thomas Vigouroux
Quantitative Methods for vulnerability research at Universite Grenoble Alpes
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France
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
vigoux/tree-sitter-viml
130 reviews, 184 commits, 66 PRs in 2 years 2 months
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
656 reviews, 208 commits, 651 PRs in 2 years 6 months
neovim/neovim
490 reviews, 220 commits, 201 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
deb
10
monochrome
10
neovim
10

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19

Cheng Xu
Senior Software Developer at Fortinet
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Canada
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
Homebrew/homebrew-core
790 commits, 49 PRs, 148 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
1439 commits, 1519 PRs, 1173 pushes in 2 years 1 month
xu-cheng/website
19 reviews, 565 commits, 146 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
equivalent
10
messaging
10
artemis
10

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20

KunMing Xie
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China
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
neovim/neovim
182 commits, 137 PRs, 131 comments in 1 year 2 months
ckelsel/neovim
2 PRs, 201 pushes, 222 branches in 6 years 6 months
ckelsel/c_cxx_exercise
105 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
obs
10
remote-desktop
10
neovim
10

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