The Future of the Vim Project
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The Future of the Vim Project
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Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#2Best of luck, this transition period is going to be chaotic for a while I'm sure. Glad to see the project in the hands of someone who seems to be on top of things. I also appreciate the carefulness of changes to the codebase after assuming leadership.
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#3I do hope this gets taken as a chance to merge Vim and Neovim, otherwise a divided community is not great for the editor
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#4I do hope this gets taken as a chance to merge Vim and Neovim, otherwise a divided community is not great for the editor
Yes, although the forks have diverged quite a bit by now :(
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#5I do hope this gets taken as a chance to merge Vim and Neovim, otherwise a divided community is not great for the editor
Why not? vim and neovim have been separate for a long time already, wouldn't it work to continue like that?
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#6I do hope this gets taken as a chance to merge Vim and Neovim, otherwise a divided community is not great for the editor
Why not? vim and neovim have been separate for a long time already, wouldn't it work to continue like that?
There’s no future to Vim without Bram. A merge of the two fork’s isn’t what Bram has wanted, but it’s the best way to keep Vim alive
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#7I do hope this gets taken as a chance to merge Vim and Neovim, otherwise a divided community is not great for the editor
They're already getting to the point of being two different editors with a common lineage and legacy support for Vimscript. The Neovim people also probably don't want to re-merge with Vim, it would probably have to be Vim basically winding down development. Doesn't seem likely.
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not? vim and neovim have been separate for a long time already, wouldn't it work to continue like that?
There’s no future to Vim without Bram. A merge of the two fork’s isn’t what Bram has wanted, but it’s the best way to keep Vim alive
I wouldn't be so dismissive.
Vim is a marquee project, tons of hackers will want to contribute because it's cool or because they want to have that name on their CV.
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#9I do hope this gets taken as a chance to merge Vim and Neovim, otherwise a divided community is not great for the editor
Yes, although the forks have diverged quite a bit by now :(
True, but if there's a will, there's a way.
They can compromise on the process and maybe aim for a medium to long term merge.
I.e. they start aligning coding conventions, standards, etc, and when they're ready 1-2 years from now they pull the switch and re-merge the code bases.
Re: The Future of the Vim Project
#10I do hope this gets taken as a chance to merge Vim and Neovim, otherwise a divided community is not great for the editor
Why not? vim and neovim have been separate for a long time already, wouldn't it work to continue like that?
If the project leads can agree to a shared vision - which frankly should be similar considering the scope of the projects - it's most likely better if they merge.
Open Source projects never have enough resources and splitting them into 2 clone projects is generally not great.
I know about competition but it's not like Vim/Neovim, programming text editor, is lacking in competition even without the other side of the fork :-)