Instant.nvim

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A Neovim plugin for real-time collaborative editing of buffers, with a built-in server, per-user undo and virtual cursors.

Adopt it when

Two Neovim users want to share buffers on a LAN or through a small self-run server without extra dependencies.

Watch out

No commits since December 2022, so expect breakage with newer Neovim versions.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Library

Built with

Lua and Neovim

How established

Established: started 6 years ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Instant.nvim → Lua → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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