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When I think about switching to Neovim, I feel disloyal and ungrateful to Bram Moolenaar. He has done so much for so many, and if Neovim takes off he won't walk
by hackuser 11y ago
When I think about switching to Neovim, I feel disloyal and ungrateful to Bram Moolenaar. He has done so much for so many, and if Neovim takes off he won't walk away with much of a reward. How much code has been written in Vim - and almost every line for free.
- oxymoron 11y agoThat seems like a strange way to view things. What is he getting out of it now that he won't be getting out of it if neovim would take off? The only thing he has asked is that people donates to a few charities of his choice. Neovim has kept those recommendations front and center, and if it does take off it might end up extending the user base causing even more people to donate. That's not a bad legacy, is it?
- dave2000 11y agoIt's open source. That's what's supposed to happen. Vim is great but the developer is by all accounts the bottleneck in any progress towards cleaning up the code, adding async support, letting people make susbstantial changes to how the project works so it's essentially stagnating. Neovim should give it a huge shot in the arm and make it possble/easier for more people to write better plugins. There's no downside to it; if you're happy sticking with vim that's totally awesome too, but I can't help but see too many new plugins being started for vim once this is out (well, v1.0 on all platforms; perhaps a bit too soon now) because..well, what would be the point?
- SZJX 11y agoWhat's the point? This is what makes open source projects awesome and most authors will obviously be glad that their projects are being picked up and expanded by more people.