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Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by WalterBright »

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…

I understand wanting to write beautiful code, it's a major motivator for me. But it does have to actually do something useful - or there's no point.

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Post by JadeNB »

Thank you, Bram Moolenaar, for literally changing the way that I interact with my text editor, and hence with my computer. I remember seeing a vim user for the first time, and just being in so much awe of what he could accomplish that I sat down immediately and started learning vim myself. I'm still on that learning curve, many years later.

Tangentially, is there any easy way to find out whom the black banner is for other than trial and error? Here I know because I searched for "died" on the front page and it brought me to this thread, but often I just find myself feeling a sense of dread at whom we've lost without being able to figure out who it actually is.

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Post by srivmutk »

God ... this hit me like a pile of bricks. Bram has probably had one of the biggest impacts on development out of basically anyone. I mean not just Vim, which was genius in its own right, but his work with the ICCF and the concept of charity-ware. My deepest condolences to his family. Anybody set up a HN donation drive for ICCF Holland?

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Post by 01az »

It breaks my heart to hear this sad news. I use Vim every day in my work. This is to say how grateful I am. I would like to offer my sincere condolences to his family and friends. May he rest in peace.

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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…

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