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Ask HN: What the future lies for Vim?

10 pointsby grover_hartmannabout 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve been using Vim for more than 10 years as my primary text editor and for everything I do.<p>We all know Vim development is slow and conservative to changes, there is Neovim for more progressive development.<p>So at this rate of vim development, what do you think the future of vim looks like?<p>There have been many converts to Neovim already; my question is, is the future of Vim good in your eyes? Would the community end up splitting? How is this going to affect Vim and plugin development?<p>Are you switching to Neovim or have you switched already?<p>Do you think Vim can still benefit from Neovim and refactor&#x2F;fix some of its code?

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modabout 10 years ago
I don&#x27;t have any complaints about vim as-is. It does everything I need.<p>If I&#x27;m given good reason to move, though, I don&#x27;t have any loyalty to the original project. I&#x27;m here for the text manipulation, which I&#x27;m guessing is not changing, and the ubiquitous nature of vim. And that it is CLI so it can be run through tmux.<p>I haven&#x27;t looked at many comparisons but I don&#x27;t have much reason to switch yet.