The new Vim project - What has changed after Bram
The new Vim project - What has changed after Bram
The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on “the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.
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..Neovim anyone?
(Bless his soul, tho, that goes without saying)
I was using Vim only and didn't want switch to Neovim. Then someday, after having performance problems in Vim, I gave Neovim a shot and switch to it. Shortly after the world was in shock when we knew Bram died. It was the day when I switched to Neovim. I feel like responsible for this.
If you have a Facebook, X or Amazon account, I hope you can find it in your heart to switch to one of their competitors. It’s worth a try.
For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement that's superior in most respects. I'm not aware of any equivants for Facebook or Amazon.
For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement
You're posting this on the Fediverse and still recommending centralized corporate social media? We can do better than make the same mistakes again and again.
Try Mastodon as a Xitter replacement.
Friendica as a Facebook replacement.
And if you're able and have transport, support your local businesses by buying products locally (especially independently owned stores), instead of ordering from Amazon.
BlueSky actually is federated, AFAIK: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture
It does use its own protocol (AT instead of ActivityPub)
I don't really see the point in a "facebook competitior" since the only appeal of facebook is that it's "normal" and "evryone" is on it, something that just isn't going to be true for e.g. some fediverse product. Everyone should stop using facebook if possible though, I'm trying to persuade different messenger groupchats that I'm part of to switch to something else left and right personally
Guess what? I still use Reddit, too, because content on Lemmy is extremely scarce in comparison. Mastodon is likewise a fringe network. I've barely even heard the name Friendica so I can be certain there are approximately zero people I know there. Shopping local is great when local businesses actually put their prices and inventory online, but they rarely do.
I'm not aware of any equivants for Facebook...
I went with just not using it, has been amazing :)
Good for you, but I like being invited to parties.
I guess I'm just cool enough I get invited regardless? Or I find out about events in other ways. I'm fine to miss a thing here or there because I don't give my data to Zuck tho
Wish I had.
For some reasons, each time I try neovim I go back to vim due to the performance.
And each time I am retrying, the worse it is.
What's the real benefits of neovim I ask myself? I got a fast editor and I am not a "plugin addict". I got my editor and all what I really want is edit text...
I'm the same way. Honestly I just like the built in terminal emulator for those few times I forget to open tmux first. Not a fan of the lua integration. Makes the initial startup slower for my config.
How do you even notice performance issues in a cli editor? 🤨
Some features/plugins can be quite taxing on the system and in extreme cases it can slow the editor down to the point of being unusable. I’m a happy Neovim user with a LazyVim setup, but I experience this extreme slowdown for some JSON files and I haven’t looked into it yet to see what causes it.
You can let your editor do the same compute intensive or memory hogging things that a GUI editor does. The fact that it runs in your terminal doesn’t make it lightweight by definition.
I use Neovim, love their Lua direction.
Nah, neovim made too many breaking changes and prioritizes the wrong things. I'd much rather the spirit of vim continue, albeit with a better organizational structure.
Curious: what are the wrong things it had prioritised?