--- > Mason is a package manager but it is very specifically or, I guess intended, to be for editing tooling like LSP servers, for DAP servers, linters, formatters; that kind of thing, not for actual neovim plugins - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0wq1n6sec466vcafsnmgmbv) --- > Alpha nvim isis it's a sort of like welcome screen > that you'll see you know on a lot ofthese like very fun sexy configurationsit just makes the welcome screen alittle more fun and sexy so if I just doVim this is just the default like grosswelcome screen experience just fine butpeople love putting ASCII art in hereand having some like optimized commandsthat you could actually run from thiswelcome screen - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0wq9y2sc63tp1nh040hkgkh) ---