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Pioneered one of the most iconic pieces of software in history, and yet did not make a single dime from it. That is truly something to look up to.
Pioneered one of the most iconic pieces of software in history, and yet did not make a single dime from it. That is truly something to look up to.
Went to his website. There was an interview of him from 2022. The answer that really stroke me was not about Vim, but about software craftmanship vs professional programming: « I have been working for a company where quite a few managers, educated in physics and mechanics, thought the software was just the same as what they knew and they could decide how to make it. That company went downhill and was eventually taken…
There was a funny React framework a while back that has all kinds of cool state management and this and that, but it renders nothing. For the developers who spend more time theorizing, migrating, refactoring, than shipping.
It's funny when people go back and forth about the time complexity of a click handler (that is debounced anyway), and they arrive at the optimal solution, but when you use the app the entire thing is super clunky lol where is the concern for time complexity of me using the product xD
Bram Moolenaar was the original author, maintainer, release manager, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim. @dang can HN put a black banner for Bram Moolenaar please?
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Bram had been spending over 30 years on Vim; and not just "the occasional patch/bugfix", but significant amounts, and almost every single day for some years. The number of people who spent that much time working on Open Source is very small, and the number of people who have spent that much time purely in their spare time is smaller still. In fact, I don't really know of anyone who even comes close to Bram. The numbe…
I don't know if Bram's family has this thread or is reading it, but the extent to which his work has impacted the software development community is enormous. Vim was one of the first pieces of software I learned when I switched to Linux in college. It was tricky at first, then it delighted me to no end. It remains a daily part of my life nearly 20 years later, and I'm still learning more about it every single year. I…