The Future of the Vim Project

Post by Anthony-G » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 4:34 PM UTC

The_Colonel wrote: post #69

meitham wrote: post #6

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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

Time will tell, but I think vim is likely to fade away with slow development pace. People are all sentimental right now, but we'll see how many of them will remain in a couple of years still committing to vim daily. Looking at the commit history, vim was largely a one-man show, I'm a bit skeptical about that changing basically overnight.

Post by berkes » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 4:42 PM UTC

ftaghn wrote: post #127

pmoriarty wrote: post #105

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How much of the rest of the vim ecosystem is Lua-based, though? As far as I know it's still mostly vimscript. Vimscript's dominance in vim is one of the things that got me to switch to emacs when I got interested in Lisp and Scheme more than a decade ago. Sure, even then I could write scripts for vim using Vim's scheme compatibility mode, but I'd probably be one of the only ones doing so. Pretty much everyone else wa…

> How's the vim ecosystem now? Is vimscript still dominant? You can have a full neovim experience with all sorts of modern extensions without using a single line of vimscript. Some people even replace their init (neovim's vimrc) with lua, but I am of the opinion that it is a step too far, as lua isn't particularly adapted to writing configuration files and the result is too verbose to my taste.

Post by civilitty » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #284

atoav wrote: post #202

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I'd say a regular will, sealed at a notary is just okay. If you are really paranoid, why not write a service that works like a dead mans switch and when you don't trigger it for n days it sends all the keys to the kingdom to those who should receive them.

Step 1: Kidnap $target Step 2: keep for N+1 days Step 3: …* Step 4: profit! * where “…” just means “wait”

Post by WorldMaker » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 4:50 PM UTC

r3trohack3r wrote: post #244

OskarS wrote: post #13

My brother passed away very suddenly a few years ago, and I was put in charge of wrapping up and archiving his "digital" life. We were very lucky that we had access to a recovery email for his main gmail account (as well as a couple of passwords that his partner knew) and was able to access and archive virtually all data we could think of (services like Google Takeout were invaluable). I realized that if this had hap…

I’m sorry to hear about your brother. > all my passwords and credentials are in my password manager, and the password to that was only in my head. It’s not just death I worry about. Anything that causes me to lose my memory of the password, from disease to head injury, leaves those trying to help me locked out of everything. A password manager is an incredibly helpful tool to leave behind, it’s a compiled list of all…

Post by imbnwa » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 4:58 PM UTC

Anthony-G wrote: post #291

The_Colonel wrote: post #69

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Time will tell, but I think vim is likely to fade away with slow development pace. People are all sentimental right now, but we'll see how many of them will remain in a couple of years still committing to vim daily. Looking at the commit history, vim was largely a one-man show, I'm a bit skeptical about that changing basically overnight.

The commit history does not accurately reflect the contributions to the code-base. As I understand it, contributors would write and provide patches to Bram who would then commit the changes to the code-base.