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.
…Neovim anyone?
(Bless his soul, tho, that goes without saying)
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…
How do you even notice performance issues in a cli editor? 🤨
Vim is dead as soon as Helix lands in debian repositories. People need to let go of stoneage tools. 😅
for the terminal
no thank you
there is currently no plugin system available
lmao
Well, thats exactly the reason you don’t need vim. Check its feature maybe.
it’s not just that this is not for me. i genuinely don’t see the point of a terminal-only editor (even vim has a gui version) without any extensibility. the reason vim and emacs are still being used despite being old and full of cruft is that their extensibility makes them very adaptable. treesitter et al seem enough now, but what about ten years from now?
it’s also weird their motivation for being terminal-only is better performance, as if guis are this super resource intensive thing and not something that’s been mainstream for at least 30 years
Took a look at it and it didn’t grab me. Different preferences for different people. I hope Helix continues to grow but I’ve no interest in it myself.
Fair enough, but somebody who didn’t invest heavy into vim, there is no purpose to do now. Helix has better defaults and the differences in movement make more sense to me.
I agree with you when that tool is X11.
I don’t understand.
