Except that the direction we were moving wasn't one branch that was much better, it feels like it was no improved branches at all. vim7 was a great improvement

Except that the direction we were moving wasn't one branch that was much better, it feels like it was no improved branches at all. vim7 was a great improvement, and when I show people the time travel capabilities it blows their minds. But that was a long time ago. With the number of people to whom vim is very important, I'm surprised there isn't more results coming out of it. Though maybe it is mostly that the core doesn't need to change and innovation can happen in the plugins? That is certainly true to some extent, but the async stuff was way overdue.