Vim 8.0 released

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Post by laqq3 » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 12:39 PM UTC

Vim 8.0 released
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Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by dcu » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 12:47 PM UTC

you can find the release notes here: http://vimhelp.appspot.com/version8.txt.html

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by nerdponx » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 1:01 PM UTC

Is there feature/API parity between Vim 8 and NeoVim? I would hate to see the community fragment and disintegrate.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by vegabook » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 1:03 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #3

Is there feature/API parity between Vim 8 and NeoVim? I would hate to see the community fragment and disintegrate.

Neovim already fragmented the community. Bram seems to have stepped up to the challenge bigtime since neovim announcement, as judged by his github activity graph.

https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by nerdponx » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 1:07 PM UTC

vegabook wrote: post #4

nerdponx wrote: post #3

Is there feature/API parity between Vim 8 and NeoVim? I would hate to see the community fragment and disintegrate.

Neovim already fragmented the community. Bram seems to have stepped up to the challenge bigtime since neovim announcement, as judged by his github activity graph. https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors

Right. Frankly that's a disappointing response. One source software shouldn't be a competition. I'm still holding out for some kind of grand unification in the future. I'm sure this is becoming a nightmare for plug-in maintainers, because it's certainly a pain in the ass for users like me.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by thedz » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 1:07 PM UTC

Notable improvements:

- Async /Io

- Async Jobs

- "Packages", which allow easier built-in bundling of plugins

I'm pretty excited for this release! I've been using Neovim for several months now, but really great to see mainline Vim get these (IMO long overdue) enhancements.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by bwilliams » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 1:09 PM UTC

vegabook wrote: post #4

nerdponx wrote: post #3

Is there feature/API parity between Vim 8 and NeoVim? I would hate to see the community fragment and disintegrate.

Neovim already fragmented the community. Bram seems to have stepped up to the challenge bigtime since neovim announcement, as judged by his github activity graph. https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors

I wouldn't say he's stepped up. It's all a reactionary response to Neovim. I dont think we'd ever have async in vim if it weren't for the neovim project.

That being said I hope they pull an io.js and merge taking the best of both vim and neovim, whatever that may be.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by znpy » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 1:11 PM UTC

Given the occasion, and given that vim is charity-ware software (http://charityware.info/), it would be cool to have some sort of HN-wide donation to ICCF (http://iccf-holland.org/).

Donation page: http://iccf-holland.org/donate.html

It seems that you can send bitcoins too: http://iccf-holland.org/bitcoin.html

Imho just mentioning HN in the payment description would be okay :)