The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on “the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.
…Neovim anyone?
(Bless his soul, tho, that goes without saying)
Nah, neovim made too many breaking changes and prioritizes the wrong things. I’d much rather the spirit of vim continue, albeit with a better organizational structure.
I use Neovim, love their Lua direction.
I was using Vim only and didn’t want switch to Neovim. Then someday, after having performance problems in Vim, I gave Neovim a shot and switch to it. Shortly after the world was in shock when we knew Bram died. It was the day when I switched to Neovim. I feel like responsible for this.
If you have a Facebook, X or Amazon account, I hope you can find it in your heart to switch to one of their competitors. It’s worth a try.
For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement that’s superior in most respects. I’m not aware of any equivants for Facebook or Amazon.
For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement
You’re posting this on the Fediverse and still recommending centralized corporate social media? We can do better than make the same mistakes again and again.
Try Mastodon as a Xitter replacement.
Friendica as a Facebook replacement.
And if you’re able and have transport, support your local businesses by buying products locally (especially independently owned stores), instead of ordering from Amazon.
Guess what? I still use Reddit, too, because content on Lemmy is extremely scarce in comparison. Mastodon is likewise a fringe network. I’ve barely even heard the name Friendica so I can be certain there are approximately zero people I know there. Shopping local is great when local businesses actually put their prices and inventory online, but they rarely do.
I’m not aware of any equivants for Facebook…
I went with just not using it, has been amazing :)
Good for you, but I like being invited to parties.
I guess I’m just cool enough I get invited regardless? Or I find out about events in other ways. I’m fine to miss a thing here or there because I don’t give my data to Zuck tho.
Edit: Also glad I’m not on there anymore considering the whole LGBT stuff that’s happened this week.
Wish I had.
For some reasons, each time I try neovim I go back to vim due to the performance.
And each time I am retrying, the worse it is.
What’s the real benefits of neovim I ask myself? I got a fast editor and I am not a “plugin addict”. I got my editor and all what I really want is edit text…
I’m the same way. Honestly I just like the built in terminal emulator for those few times I forget to open tmux first. Not a fan of the lua integration. Makes the initial startup slower for my config.
Saved the video for later, but does anyone have a synopsis of the recco? Is switching to neovim the answer or are they taking the vim repo in a specific direction?
Thank-you for that question …
I scrubbed through it quickly.
First half is about housekeeping, history, funding, etc.
Second half is about future directions and it seems conservative. No huge changes planned, other than a new website. :) Discussed encouraging new developers, polling users for what to do next, maintaining quality.
Ended with some q&a.
9.2 will include XDG (.dotfiles) and Wayland support.
What does wayland support mean in the context of vim? Like wayland clipboard or what?
One should probably search the commits for wayland but I am on mobile right now:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Avim%2Fvim+wayland&type=issues
Appears to be the GUI version and the clipboard support, yes.
… and your reply.
Thank you.
