Looking good! You should switch to lazy from packer though. It’s simple:

• You just need to add a lazy.lua file (just copy the one from the “Structured setup” section in lazy installation documentation)
• Then instead of a plugins.lua, you can create a plugins/ directory instead where you can have separate .lua files in it and lazy will automatically detect them.
• Just follow the lazy Plugin Spec documentation and move over your packer plugins to lazy

• Yes, definitely use lua. You don’t need to learn much, you can learn as you go
• I’d recommend lazy.nvim as a plugin manager

In fact, just start with kickstart.nvim. It is a starter config which is well documented and all in one file. It is a great starting point and you can then build from there. I’d recommend learning how to modularize and start moving stuff for separate concerns into separate files.

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