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https://github.com/onivim/libvim#why-is-libvim-based-on-vim-and-not-neovim https://github.com/onivim/libvim#why-is-libvim-based-on-vim-... Guts of it is that N

• bryphe 6y ago
  > Rather than invest time in working through the problem I don't think this is a fair characterization. We've made significant investments in both Neovim and Vim, and carefully considered the trade-offs. > Guts of it is that Neovim didn't play nicely with their OCaml build and Vim did This was a smaller consideration - but more fundamentally, the model Neovim uses for input - queuing it on an event loop and handling it asynchronously - is at odds with what we required - to be able to process the input -> handle updates synchronously. There was a significant amount of incidental complexity in the architecture of our V1 to fit that asynchronous model - we wanted to avoid that for V2, and we switched to Vim because it fit that model.
  • richeyryan 6y ago
    Apologies, I didn't mean to insinuate that you were taking shortcuts or making frivolous choices. My attempt to summarize obviously lost the nuance of the decision. I think the link summed it up well, near the end > this was purely a constraint-based technical decision