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What does it mean to NeoVim? Does it affect it's development, split developers or anything? Is it good?
by Walkman 11y ago
What does it mean to NeoVim? Does it affect it's development, split developers or anything? Is it good?
- llimllib 11y agoI have to think it's a direct response to neovim, and that competition between them is likely to be very good
- icholy 11y agoThe reason neovim was started was to add these exact features. Now that vim has them, I think neovim's work is done. Mission accomplished.
- akkartik 11y agoReplace Neovim with Chrome, Vim with Firefox. Does your argument still stand? Starting up a competing project has a huge cost. Once started, it's overwhelmingly better for the world for the competitors to continue[1], so that they can continue to make each other accountable. [1] Unless one of the competitors is able to subsume the other. Like EGCS subsumed GCC back in the early 2000s. Total victory is a valid emergent outcome of competition, not somebody deciding what 'should' happen.
- duskwuff 11y agoEhh... I think neovim was also started to create a decrufted version of the vim codebase. That goal is still perfectly valid.