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Re:Neovim 0.8 Released by freedomben on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:42PM (#33038081)
Yeah it's a tough one. I've switched back and forth relatively freely over the years, but now that new VimScript (vim9 script) has breaking changes and neovim will not be supporting it, it's probably time to pick a pony.

I may end up sticking with og vim but my heart has always been with neovim. regular vim would undoubtedly still be stuck in the stone age (including with no :terminal) had neovim not started some competition. I get the feeling that VimL's evolution was done in a way that made it quite difficult or impossible for neovim to merge/rebase into. Hopefully that wasn't intentional.

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Re:Neovim 0.8 Released by yoyohello13 on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:48PM (#33038159)
The creator of Neovim's LSP integration is currently working on a VimL9 JIT compiler to make Vim9 plugins work for Neovim (early stages). So you still may be able to stay on the fence.
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Re:Neovim 0.8 Released by alwillis on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:11PM (#33038476)
"Exciting progress on vim9script => Nvim-Lua transpiler”: https://twitter.com/Neovim/status/1575455161186664451
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Re:Neovim 0.8 Released by alwillis on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:56PM (#33038268)
Vim has had :terminal since version 8.1 [1].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/mahemoff/8967b5de067cffc67cec174cb3a...

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Re:Neovim 0.8 Released by freedomben on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:13PM (#33038497)
Going somewhat off memory here, but my recollection is that was like 3 or 4 years after neovim's first release.
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Re:Neovim 0.8 Released by alwillis on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:18PM (#33038555)
That’s true.
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Re:Neovim 0.8 Released by maxnoe on Saturday October 01, 2022 @04:39AM (#33045046)
The whole reason there ever was a vim 8 was neovim and the pressure it applied to implement async plugins and terminal.

Without neovim, we'd still be on vim 7.xxxxx

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