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I have to think it's a direct response to neovim, and that competition between them is likely to be very good

• icholy 11y ago
  The 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 ago
    Replace 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 ago
    Ehh... I think neovim was also started to create a decrufted version of the vim codebase. That goal is still perfectly valid.