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> renders the editor completely unresponsive I thought one of the points of neovim was to support true async stuff. So in theory, it should be possible to just

• OJFord 5y ago
  I'm not disagreeing with you (because I don't know the original 'points' of neovim and I've never used it) but plain vim now (as of v8 I think) supports 'async stuff'. I'm sure neovim has other benefits to some, but that alone at least I think is no longer one.
  • bern4444 5y ago
    Vim only supports async stuff because vim had to keep up with neovim which first introduced async support. I think vim's time is nearly over. Just as it replaced vi, neovim will replace vim. It may not get to the ubiquity of being installed everywhere by default, but certainly as the go to cli editor on devs' work and personal machines