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When someone else posted their vim collaborative plugin, the Floobits people were all over the thread promoting their commercial product over it. I will also n
by pekk 13y ago
When someone else posted their vim collaborative plugin, the Floobits people were all over the thread promoting their commercial product over it.
I will also note that the Floobits people seem incapable of posting about their vim plugin without downing vim, as if doing this were equally or more important than their product.
- kansface 13y agoI will note that neither ggreer nor myself commented in the other thread (ie, the Floobits team). For that matter, we don't have any ill will towards CoVim or the Etherpad Vim plugin; I personally hope they succeed and the number of people who pair program on a daily basis increases. Floobits is also currently free and the plugins at least are open sourced. It takes a significant amount of time to develop this software- hopefully users will find the value we add commensurate with the investment on our part and we can make a business out of it. Finally, we are left in a strange position with users on why the Vim plugin behaves so strangely. Ideally, users wouldn't have to change their behavior at all; everything would just magically work. Unfortunately, Vim is purposefully designed to make things like collaborative editing impossible (it has no event loop and async actions are impossible). Vim is by design a text editor and not an IDE. We should probably communicate the limitations of the platform better to end users.
- btipling 13y agoIt was I who posted in the HN CoVim comments about Floobits, and I am not affiliated with Floobits. I just like it. It's better than CoVim for a number of reasons whether or not it's commercial.