Neovim

Project ideas

9 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 14 that state a difficulty: 8 medium, 6 hard. Sizes: 4 medium, 5 large. 3 mentors named.

1. Proposals are tracked as discussions
2. Multibuffer: many buffers stitched together as one virtual buffer large hard
3. Run Neovim in a web browser large hard
4. Restore :terminal buffers after restart medium medium
5. Visual-first editing large hard
6. GUI Features medium hard
7. IDE "Vim mode" medium medium
8. "Remote SSH" features large medium
9. Java client medium

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2018, 5 years. Projects per year: '18: 2, '19: 2, '20: 1, '25: 3, '26: 2.

On GitHub

14 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Lua (3), C (1), C# (1), HTML (1), JavaScript (1), Python (1).

Links and channels

• Website: https://neovim.io/
• Ideas page: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code
• Contributor guide: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code
• Source code: https://github.com/neovim/neovim
• Chat: https://matrix.to/#/#neovim:matrix.org
• Mailing list: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/discussions

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