Unity, Neovim, and WSL

[umbral lily]

I've been pulling my hair out trying to get Unity to work with Neovim through WSL.

I've tried omnisharp and roslyn, but neither seems to 'just work'.
I've been able to get neovim working on Ubuntu natively, but I am currently working on a VR project that requires the Meta Quest SDK, and unfortunately, that is only available on Windows (😢).

Is there anyone actively using Windows & WSL2 to work on Unity projects? Could you share your experience on how you got things working?

I've been looking at repos like:

• https://github.com/seblyng/roslyn.nvim , but I can only get partial LSP support ( https://github.com/seblyng/roslyn.nvim/issues/266 )
• https://github.com/apyra/nvim-unity , but this package seems to throw a bunch of errors upon importing it, and relies on nvchad rather than a custom nvim configuration
• https://github.com/walcht/neovim-unity , but this seems to rely on yet another 'custom neovim configuration'

I've also been looking into using Rider and IdeaVIM, but I hate the idea of juggling both a vim config and a neovim config.
Furthermore, I've also been exploring running Neovim on Windows natively, but again, I would hate juggling both a nvim config for Windows and a nvim config for Linux.

I seem to have hit a wall where all I can find is outdated posts (some as far as 5+ years ago) using outdated packages.

I find it hard to believe that there aren't any developers using neovim through Windows. (Well, I can understand why developers wouldn't want to use Windows. But there have to be people in a similar situation!)

[vernal ivy]

I get that it's annoying that unity only provides support officially for Vs, Vs code and rider but it's just what is commonly used on windows and mac

[umbral lily]

Okay but I don't see how that is relevant.

[vernal ivy]

It's just me telling you it may not be easy to achieve this on windows in a way you want.
I don't know much about vim, is this configuration something that can be done with editorconfig?

That at least is somewhat supported across many programs

[umbral lily]

Can you just steer clear of the conversation if you've got nothing to add?

I know it isn't easy to achieve this, that's why I created this thread.
.editorconfig has very little to do with the topic either.

[umbral lily]

Anyone? :x

[hidden rampart]

sounds like a pretty specific problem
If it's something that's just not supported or requires some weird workaround, you'd be better to just use what's available instead

[umbral lily]

Sigh - I already am using 'whats available'. Its Rider and Ideavim.

I am looking to move away from it because I want a better developer experience, and it's not like neovim is some obscure niche editor noawadays.

[umbral lily]

I don't care if you are content with 'whats available', that's not why I made this thread. I am looking for people who want to accomplish the same thing. If that's not you, then why even bother replying.

[hidden rampart]

i'm just saying that instead of spending time on something that's this specific (in a case where none of the solutions works for you either), you should just try getting used to what you can actually use

[inner gorge]

"I'll ask something EXTREMELY specific and I'm gonna be rude and act like a superior being to anyone replying with their opinion. Surely someone who sees this will want to help me! 😎"

[umbral lily]

None of these replies were relevant. Neither is yours.

I'd be more than keen to chat with people who are actually looking into the same thing.

I am not keen to chat with people who are telling me to just give up lmao

That isn't helpful in the slightest.

[hidden rampart]

not recognizing that sometimes it is just not worth the trouble when there are other options doesn't warrant you replying like that.
Doesn't make anyone more inclined in helping either

[umbral lily]

Honestly, shut up. You're just being an ass at this point.

I asked help with getting neovim set up. You all come in this thread telling me to not use neovim instead.

It's like someone posting a thread on fixing their door bell, and all of you start replying 'uhh i dont know shit about electronics, why, cant you just knock instead?'
Your advice is irrelevant and not useful. So stop acting like I'm being 'rude for no reason'. None of you who replied are contributing to a fruitful conversation, and then get upset that I'm calling you out on not contributing to a fruitful conversation.

You have the full power to just not reply if you don't know what you're talking about. You don't have to share your 'expert' opinions trying to discourage me to use the tool I am specifically trying to use.

This behaviour is exactly what is keeping people stick with a shitty developer pipeline.
'oh x takes too much effort so we'll just stick with y, even though y is mediocre at best' is not something you should be proud of.

[minor verge]

You are posting on a public forum. Be respectful. Feel free to ignore advice you don't like and do not engage.

[umbral lily]

Yeah sorry mate I am just fed up with comments like these flooding any threads that relate to what I'm trying to do. It's like there's a script out there somewhere which makes developers who don't know anything about the topic express their opinions against the topic.

I know I oughtta just ignore useless advice instead. Just a bit of a drop-in-the-bucket situation for me, but I'll continue to ignore them from now on 👍

[minor verge]

You are flooding your own thread with useless rants. Just take it or leave it.