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I 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
by filchermcurr 4mo ago
I 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