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Post by asveikau »

bennyschmidt wrote: post #225
lolive wrote: post #160

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…

> people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do 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 complexit…

I feel it's much more common to create abstractions without regard for performance cost of the abstraction. So keeping time complexity down, even for a piece that doesn't matter much, is above average for this sort of thing.

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Post by bastardoperator »

tzhenghao wrote: post #67

Loved his "7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0" (2007) talk and humor [1] "How many of you are mostly using Emacs?" a bunch of raised hands "Okay, we'll try to convert some people today!" RIP, Bram Moolenaar [1] - https://youtu.be/p6K4iIMlouI

I want to see his .vimrc, RIP

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Post by yowlingcat »

I've spent most of my schooling and career using Vim in one form or another. It's as close to an instrument that I don't even need to think about using and can just follow muscle memory as anything I've ever worked with.

It's perhaps my most important tool as an engineer. So much of its design is clear as the brainchild of Bram, so hearing this makes me sad. I hope Bram knew how many lives he touched.

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Post by tmountain »

I am such a huge fan of Vim that I ran a Vim blog and posted daily tips for several years (will not mention it by name because I do not want to self-promote in this thread). I don't have much to say besides the fact that I feel like we've lost a "giant" in the open source world, and Bram's contributions as a software engineer, and more importantly, a fantastic human being, will not be forgotten. :help uganda

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Post by chromoblob »

pseudo_meta wrote: post #223

> Anyone who's used Vim has seen evidence of Moolenaar's generosity. "Vim is Charityware," Moolenaar wrotes in its pioneering license. "You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda." Moolenaar pioneered the concept of charityware decades ago, and also helped to popularize its adoption. Pioneered one of the most iconic pieces of software in history…

He did, he only gave everything of it to ICCF then.

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Post by cxr »

lolive wrote: post #160

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…

What's wrong with the last sentence?

For ease of consumption, the context again:

> On the other end of the scale are people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do or what the budget was. Somewhere in between, there is a balance.

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by arp242 »

throwawaynew wrote: post #250
codetrotter wrote: post #3

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?

Not to sound bitter, but should we assume that dang does not consider the creator of vim to be worthy of a black banner? I keep forgetting that this site, despite having hacker in its name, is not really about hacking. Anyways, I hope Bram Moolenaar finds peace.

Or we could assume that dang is not awake 24/7, and does not have a neural interface to everything that happens on HN and in the world, and actually does other things with his life than moderate HN.

In short: he's such a lazy git with zero work ethnic.

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