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Vim Classic 8.3 Released
- nxrabl 4mo agoI wouldn’t have taken this project seriously without the byline on this post of Drew DeVault. Glad he’s doing ok.
- nosrepa 4mo agoI remember talking to him a lot on #minecraft on freenode over a decade ago.
- Chu4eeno 4mo agoI'm not a fan of him, but I'm still glad he picked up this. Just take a gander on the recent issues listed here, and how completely unavoidable they are: https://github.com/vim/vim/security https://github.com/vim/vim/security I hoped the people that wanted neovim features would've stuck to neovim instead of pushing vim to accelerate, but it seems like free LLM tokens made it a bit too tempting. edit: I'm regarded, I misread your post, ignore me.
- filchermcurr 4mo agoI think I missed part of the story. Is there something wrong with Vim 9? Is it heavily LLM-driven now? That's the only hint I could find on the Vim Classic site.
- MaxLeiter 4mo agoFrom the maintainer: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/ https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519308
- Chu4eeno 4mo agoI only noticed it when a slew of security holes (re-)introduced by uncritical merging of LLM code got CVEs assigned. Luckily I was lazy running a custom build of vim and hadn't updated since they started lowering the merge barrier (or however you can put this politely).
- mi_lk 4mo agoWith respect to the creator, Vim9 script is inferior to Lua in terms of adoption, learning curve, stability, features and probably performance. If the purpose is to serve users a new DSL is not really defensible when Neovim has proved Lua works