Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, and Version 8

Re:Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, ... by hxegon on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:07AM (#13237290)

A lot of other comments make related points that kind of dance around this, but here it is: The major improvements of neovim aren't (directly) user facing. It's a major refactor, which makes it immensely easier to maintain and contribute too. Neovim isn't a vim reinvention, it's a vim renewal.

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Re:Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, ... by kedean on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:04PM (#13248359)

What I think is interesting here is that Neovim is entirely contrary to the original point of Vim, as presented in the article: a vi available on non-Unix systems. It was portable, so it could be run anywhere. Now Neovim's selling point is that it DOESN'T have all the code that enabled that portability.

Not suggesting one way is better or worse, but I think it's interesting.

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