🚀 Welcome to Polydev

Polydev is a highly customizable and extensible Neovim plugin aimed at streamlining project creation and management for multiple programming languages. It’s especially suited for developers who work across different languages and want a consistent workflow for initializing, building, and running projects.

❓ What is Polydev?

Polydev is designed to be a centralized workspace tool that reduces repetitive tasks involved in setting up development environments. Whether you’re working on a Lua plugin, a Rust CLI tool, or a C++ project, Polydev helps you scaffold project directories, create boilerplate code, and define keybinds to streamline execution — all from within Neovim.

💡 Why Polydev?

Modern development often involves juggling multiple languages. Setting up similar environments repeatedly or manually running commands wastes time. Polydev solves this by providing:

📦 Project templates per language
🎯 Custom keybindings for common actions
💻 Floating terminal support
🗂 Easy file creation and directory structure generation
🔌 Plugin-first architecture to expand functionality

🔧 Core Features

🌐 Language Support: Define custom settings per language including project_root, keybinds, and build_attributes.
🪟 Floating Terminals: Run builds and executions in a Neovim floating terminal.
🧱 Scaffolding: Automatically create the appropriate directory and file layout for new projects.
🎹 Keybind Mapping: Rebind keys to execute project-specific commands like Run, or Test.
🔌 Pluggable: Designed to easily integrate with other tools or extend with your own commands and language presets.

👥 Target Audience

Polydev is perfect for:

🧑‍💻 Developers building across multiple languages
🔌 Plugin authors and power users of Neovim
⚡ Anyone who wants automated project bootstrapping

🎯 Goals

📏 Consistency: Provide a common interface for all your dev projects.
🧩 Extensibility: Let users add their own languages and tools.
✨ Simplicity: Reduce boilerplate and context switching.

🧪 Example Use Case

Say you're a developer who works with Rust, Lua, and Python. Instead of remembering build commands, directory structures, or manually creating a main.rs or init.lua, Polydev:

🏗 Sets up your directory based on language conventions.
📄 Generates boilerplate files.
🎛 Maps <leader>pr to Run, <leader>po to Open Polydev Project Manager, and so on.
🖥 Opens a floating terminal to show your output.

🏷 Versioning

Polydev uses GitHub tags and branches to manage plugin versions. Each version corresponds to a stable release that users can track.

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