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Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, has died.

If you are a vim user, consider donating to International Child Care Fund Holland - a charity Bram heavily supported. You can find the link on vim.org

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[–] I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very sad. Like others here, vim is a huge part of my work. I even use qutebrowser for vim keys. From what I understood, he was the primary developer and gatekeeper for vim. I wonder if he had plans in place for when he was going to retire

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m curious as well. Maybe I will re-consider neovim.

For my machines, I switched to NeoVim a while ago. There were certain instances when editing large files that Vim would lag and NeoVim doesn't. But I manage a lot of systems that are not my systems, so I use Vim on those.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I switched several years ago, back when neovim did async stuff and :term and supported things like ALE before vim8 implemented similar functionality.

So far, I haven't run into anything that neovim can't handle in my day-to-day, and it seems generally faster, but that's probably me falling for the "neo" in the name. Like how painting flames on the side of a car make it go faster.

[–] YassKwiin@rammy.site 2 points 1 year ago

He had publicly stated that keeping him alive was the only succession plan.

He might have been kidding though.