LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT from scratch

Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by skorpeon87 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:23PM (#33758034)

NeoVim devs earned that 'Neo' by rapidly adding features that were in demand for years (and were subsequently implemented in Vim, in response to NeoVim's new pace of innovation.

Anyway, adding Neo was enough to differentiate the two names, so what's the problem? Let's not forget that Vim did the same thing to Vi when it was named "Vi IMproved."

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Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by ketralnis on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:09PM (#33758457)

It's not the name in the neovim case, it's the tagline "literally the future of vim" when vim was still being actively developed by a different group. It is IMO immoral for me to start a site called "Hacker News 2.0: The successor to Hacker News" and start telling people that I'm the next version of it and that's how that comes off to me.

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Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by flumpcakes on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:15PM (#33758504)

I understand your point, it does seem quite... rude? It reminds me of google calling their programming language "Go" while there was an existing language with that name already.

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Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by CameronNemo on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:27AM (#33760881)

They didn't call it Vim 9, though. It would be more like if you had a forum called NeoHacker News. Similar to "Hacker News"? Yes. More alliterative? Also yes. Misleading? Potentially not, with the right communication.

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