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Never attempted to make the move (friction, sizeable vimrc). I've mostly been using the distro builds, which for neovim often meant an outdated version. I can
by Aissen 7y ago
Never attempted to make the move (friction, sizeable vimrc). I've mostly been using the distro builds, which for neovim often meant an outdated version.
I can also admit that I've benefited from the project, even if I've never used it. Like everyone using Firefox is currently benefiting from WebRender, despite never moving to Servo.
We often find criticisms of forks in OSS (waste of resource, we should work together through a common goal), but the truth is that this flawed mechanism allows for innovation and experimentation. Which is also why the BigCos that ship different competing products (say, messaging apps), are often the most innovative because it prevents (some kind of) in-fighting and cookie licking.
- xvzwq 7y agoI have a reasonably large .vimrc, but I only had to change one line to switch to Neovim. All the plugins (~10) worked too.
- linsomniac 7y agoAgreeing with another response: I have a vimrc that I've accumulated over something like 20 years, I kept putting off switching to Neovim because I anticipated it would be a headache, and in the end it only required something like half an hour to make the switch, probably less. I would classify it as "easy peasy".