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But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind! Only joking of course, actually quite refreshing to see a new version announcement of something this major without any AI nonsense.
Congratulations! >Full support for the Wayland UI I really hope they never deprecate X11 support :) I doubt they will, but if they do, it will leave the BSDs without a good alternative.
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I worked at a place like this and we had a software registry, where if you had installed something and it wasn't on the registry somebody would start sending you nasty emails. This kind of thing would happen all the time: maybe the Linux machines weren't in the scans, or anything that came with the OS was whitelisted. But if you wanted to install it separately on a computer that didn't have it already, then you'd nee…
Even if it is your own work computer?
limitations on what you can install on such machines can be quite draconian, including forbidding anything that IT Security and similar departments may not like.
Congratulations! >Full support for the Wayland UI I really hope they never deprecate X11 support :) I doubt they will, but if they do, it will leave the BSDs without a good alternative.
Usually vim runs I’m the terminal, so I don’t have any worries about losing support. But other people have other use-cases, of course…
> For over 30 years, Vim has been "Charityware," supporting children in Kibaale, Uganda. Following the passing of Bram Moolenaar, the ICCF Holland foundation was dissolved […] and its remaining funds were transferred to ensure continued support for the Kibaale project. […] Vim remains Charityware. We encourage users to continue supporting the needy children in Uganda through this new transition. I settled on vim for…
Do I understand it correctly, but people donating to Vim, presumably for the support of the software, have their donations passed along to a charity supporting children in Uganda?
But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind! Only joking of course, actually quite refreshing to see a new version announcement of something this major without any AI nonsense.
AISREIR AI Should Rewrite Everything In Rust
Bonus point linking the name to the hellish corporation in Max Payne.
Congratulations! >Full support for the Wayland UI I really hope they never deprecate X11 support :) I doubt they will, but if they do, it will leave the BSDs without a good alternative.
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well the library ecosystem, developer tooling, and gradual typing support for lua is far ahead of what’s available for vimscript. in my experience lua is #2 behind javascript/typescript’s #1 when it comes to scripting language LSP stuff. both python and ruby suffer from a profusion of alternative type checkers and whatnot that cause pain and fragmentation when it comes to tooling. it’s pretty great to have my vimconf…
Oh man imagine if NeoVim had been TypeScript. I would've switched then.
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I used to work for a large enterprise, and tried to get vim ‘approved’ for internal use. I remember this charityware clause caused our legal department to get tied up in all sorts of arguments about how we could be opening ourselves to liability if we used it without donating. It was my first lesson in navigating large company processes. In the end I just kept quiet about the fact that it ships in all the Linux packa…
Curious why you tried to get it approved in the first place if it comes with Linux?
On Linux, this is commonly accomplished using Red Hat Satellite [1], although many other tools are also available to use instead.
Getting approval to install something like Vim can literally take months of effort and arguing.
[1] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_satellite/6...
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I used to work for a large enterprise, and tried to get vim ‘approved’ for internal use. I remember this charityware clause caused our legal department to get tied up in all sorts of arguments about how we could be opening ourselves to liability if we used it without donating. It was my first lesson in navigating large company processes. In the end I just kept quiet about the fact that it ships in all the Linux packa…
“Let’s spend thousands of dollars on lawyers to avoid donating to a good cause”. Large corporations can be so ridiculous.