The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on “the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.

  • PushButton@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    For some reasons, each time I try neovim I go back to vim due to the performance.

    And each time I am retrying, the worse it is.

    What’s the real benefits of neovim I ask myself? I got a fast editor and I am not a “plugin addict”. I got my editor and all what I really want is edit text…

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      5 hours ago

      I’m the same way. Honestly I just like the built in terminal emulator for those few times I forget to open tmux first. Not a fan of the lua integration. Makes the initial startup slower for my config.