There is one thing that vim provides that the neovim folks have said that they will never provide, and that’s a GUI. Unless the vim project gives that up (and

There is one thing that vim provides that the neovim folks have said that they will never provide, and that’s a GUI. Unless the vim project gives that up (and there will be significant outrage over that), or unless the neovim folks give up that particularly shortsighted stance (having a first-party cross-platform pluggable GUI is a good thing), I do not see a merge ever happening.