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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  • I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      He had publicly stated that keeping him alive was the only succession plan.

      He might have been kidding though.

      • I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world
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        1 year ago

        For my machines, I switched to NeoVim a while ago. There were certain instances when editing large files that Vim would lag and NeoVim doesn’t. But I manage a lot of systems that are not my systems, so I use Vim on those.