Message from the family of Bram Moolenaar
groups.google.com

Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, has died.

If you are a vim user, consider donating to International Child Care Fund Holland - a charity Bram heavily supported. You can find the link on vim.org

:wq

  • I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    Very sad. Like others here, vim is a huge part of my work. I even use qutebrowser for vim keys. From what I understood, he was the primary developer and gatekeeper for vim. I wonder if he had plans in place for when he was going to retire

      • I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        For my machines, I switched to NeoVim a while ago. There were certain instances when editing large files that Vim would lag and NeoVim doesn’t. But I manage a lot of systems that are not my systems, so I use Vim on those.

      • evatronic@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I switched several years ago, back when neovim did async stuff and :term and supported things like ALE before vim8 implemented similar functionality.

        So far, I haven’t run into anything that neovim can’t handle in my day-to-day, and it seems generally faster, but that’s probably me falling for the “neo” in the name. Like how painting flames on the side of a car make it go faster.

    • YassKwiin@rammy.site
      2·
      1 year ago

      He had publicly stated that keeping him alive was the only succession plan.

      He might have been kidding though.