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Bram Moolenaar Passed Away (groups.google.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, has died.

If you are a vim user, consider donating to International Child Care Fund Holland - a charity Bram heavily supported. You can find the link on vim.org

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[–] 39 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Very sad. Like others here, vim is a huge part of my work. I even use qutebrowser for vim keys. From what I understood, he was the primary developer and gatekeeper for vim. I wonder if he had plans in place for when he was going to retire

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’m curious as well. Maybe I will re-consider neovim.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I switched several years ago, back when neovim did async stuff and :term and supported things like ALE before vim8 implemented similar functionality.

    So far, I haven't run into anything that neovim can't handle in my day-to-day, and it seems generally faster, but that's probably me falling for the "neo" in the name. Like how painting flames on the side of a car make it go faster.

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