This discussion caused me to look up info on it, and this source has some compelling reasons: https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-vim/

This discussion caused me to look up info on it, and this source has some compelling reasons: https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-vim/ https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-... For me personally, a good reason to switch seems to be the NeoVim team itself seems less hostile to new people and making changes. Of course stability is likely important to many people, so there may be many good reasons to stay with vim as other's have stated, but someone refusing an update because it uses ANSI C seems a bit much...