I find lots of arguments about who was actually more arrogant. But lets look at it from objective perspective. Looking at neovim[1] vs vim[2] contribution Bram

I find lots of arguments about who was actually more arrogant. But lets look at it from objective perspective. Looking at neovim[1] vs vim[2] contribution Bram is top contributor for vim. 16,211 commit right now. Second top most contributor has 194 commits only. Neovim top contributor has 2285 commits, followed by 21,66 commits for second. It looks to me that neovim is more open to community contribution. Then look at commit graph over period of time. It looks like Neovim is more actively developed. There development activity level around vim also increased in 2016. Perhaps that was the time when bram realized that he need to do more with vim, to compete with neovim. I myself was a longtime vim user, who switched to neovim 2 years ago, and am happy with it. [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors [2] https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors