Great interview, from YT description:
"Echasnovski is the creator of mini.nvim, as per the website: "Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.9 and higher) experience with minimal effort. They all share same configuration approaches and general design principles. Think about this project as “Swiss Army knife” among Neovim plugins: it has many different independent tools (modules) suitable for most common tasks. Each module can be used separately without any startup and usage overhead."
He's also the creator of MiniMax: "MiniMax is a collection of fully working self-contained Neovim configs. All of the them: Use mostly MINI to showcase its capabilities. Provide out of the box a stable, polished, and feature rich Neovim experience. Share minimal structure with potential to build upon. Contain extensively commented config files meant to be read. It can be automatically set up, which uses the best suited config from available ones."
The interview is over 3 hours long, so it is split in 2. Part 2 is going to be released soon"
00:00:00 - Highlights
00:01:36 - How do we pronounce your name
00:04:23 - What do you do in the neovim community?
00:07:53 - Neovim 0.5 and the wild wild west of lua plugins
00:10:23 - We've been planning this interview for over 6 months
00:12:20 - Echasnovski's ban on reddit
00:14:59 - Colorscheme theory (that I didn't understand, not normie friendly)
00:22:10 - Color theory is very complex as everyone is different
00:23:30 - Gruvbox is for old people, highly saturated colors
00:27:15 - Echasnovski created the default Neovim colorscheme
00:27:38 - Justin Keyes also likes boring colors. Old soul trapped in a young body
00:29:17 - Is Justin a dictator?
00:32:18 - Why the reddit ban?
00:38:49 - long reddit posts go through mod's approval
00:40:17 - How does the shadown ban work?
00:42:02 - Shoutout to Lukas Reineke
00:43:37 - Account restored by a misterious reddit employee
00:45:19 - Self hosting git server, codeberg, tangled.org
00:48:02 - Why planning on self hosting?
00:49:17 - Explaining the repo structure of mini.nvim
00:50:44 - You also have a picker? mini.pick
00:52:15 - Sylvan Franklin seems to use mini.pick
00:52:53 - Custom pickers?
00:54:03 - Issues with the matching of some pickers
00:56:18 - mini.pick has a frecency option? mini-visits (sounds like a prison conjugal visit)
00:59:30 - Thoughts on telescope?
01:01:00 - Why did you move from vim to neovim?
01:03:48 - Embarrassing experience with vim at work
01:05:32 - vscode neovim plugin
01:07:21 - Do you remember your first times using vim, was it tough?
01:10:38 - Thoughts on distros? What do you recommend to a beginner?
01:16:58 - What happened to lunarvim?
01:18:23 - Lazyvim distro or kickstart
01:19:38 - MiniMax demo
01:21:24 - Is MiniMax designed for complete beginners?
01:25:59 - mini.clue and why not which-key?
01:26:37 - Folke is always on vacation
01:29:11 - Did you copy Helix?
01:31:01 - The which-key hate continues
01:35:29 - Interview with Folke?
01:36:02 - The 30_mini.lua config file
01:39:21 - What if I want to use my own picker with MiniMax?
01:42:14 - Single config file for all plugins or a file per plugin?
01:44:21 - Echasnovski allegedly created the new neovim plugin manager vim.pack
01:48:10 - Should I wait for Neovim 0.12 before trying MiniMax?
01:52:22 - vim.pack doesn't have a healthcheck because it's perfect
01:52:54 - vim.pack demo
01:54:16 - Do you use any other plugins besides mini.nvim?