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The Vim/Neovim is a great natural experiment on this. Vim is a highly successful project for decades. And one could correctly attribute much of that success to
by asdajksah2123 4y ago
The Vim/Neovim is a great natural experiment on this.
Vim is a highly successful project for decades. And one could correctly attribute much of that success to Bram Moolenaar's driving it.
And yet, once Neovim was created with a much "nicer" and broader leadership team, innovation has absolutely skyrocketed, where it's highly likely that Neovim has almost completely replaced Vim as the preferred editor for most Vim users who take the time to think about their editors, customize them, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if neovim starts replacing vim in distributions within a couple of years.
- Beltalowda 4y agoBram has his sometimes idiosyncratic ways of doing things, but that's quite a different thing than being "not nice". It's a completely different situation with very different dynamics. > I wouldn't be surprised if neovim starts replacing vim in distributions within a couple of years. That would be highly disruptive as Neovim isn't compatible with Vim. Plus Vim is still actively developed with no signs of slowing down.
- qu4z-2 4y agoTo be fair, people who spend a lot of time customising vim (eg embedding a terminal, building half an IDE) seems to be very much the target market for neovim. I use regular vim because I don't want to think about my editor, I just want it to work.
- brynjolf 4y agoBrad is nice, don't try to soil his reputation because you disagree with him on the features he wants to bring into VIM