I’ve been using Vim for years but Vim’s built-in insert mode content completion is something I only recently took the time to learn. In this blog post I’m going to share how I’ve configured insert mode completion using only features built into Vim 9.

I’ve written a couple of blog posts this year on the rewrite of asdf in Go. My previous posts have covered some of the technical details of the rewrite. I thought I spent quite a bit of time weighing the merits of several different languages before I settled on Go. I’d take some time to share my reasons for choosing Go.

asdf was rewritten from scratch in Go and released on January 29th. No special attention was given to performance during the rewrite. The goal was feature parity in a more maintainable language. In this post I’m going to share some benchmarks I ran across many versions of asdf and show how the Go rewrite improved performance.