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I wonder why didn't the vim folks write the abstracting library?

• amelius 11y ago
  Simple. Just imagine how this code evolved. First, they started with a simple 1-liner, that took at most 5 minutes to come up with. Then another platform was added, this took another 5 minutes, etc. Abstracting, however, would take perhaps a day of work. A full library such as libuv would have taken maybe a couple of weeks to develop. So there you are. QED.
  • VLM 11y ago
    If they added libvu support, we'd have a post about "VIM's 430 line keyboard input routine" instead of a mere 400. At least for a major release or so before they could flush the legacy code. If they can.