Fresh nvim config, stdpath rejects any arg I provide and :checkhealth lazy fails to run

[EJunger]

Hi guys,

I just started a fresh neovim config with the intention of making a new build around Lazy.nvim over Packer. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make it past installing lazy.

My init.lua only holds:

local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath 'data' .. '/lazy/lazy.nvim'
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system {
    'git',
    'clone',
    '--filter=blob:none',
    'https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git',
    '--branch=stable', -- latest stable release
    lazypath,
  }
end
vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)

And the :checkhealth lazy fails with:

I've cycled through the other possible values that nvim stdpath could possibly accept but they all return: "state" is not valid stdpath

Apologies if this is an obvious fix, I've been out of the nvim game for a minute and am just getting back into things now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[folke]

Your Neovim version is too old. Check the requirements

[EJunger]

[EJunger]

But both my nvim version and git are up to date?

[folke]

No, you're running an older nightly of 0.8.0. See the -dev part in your version string

[EJunger]

Understood, thanks for the quick response.