On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 05:44:29PM -0800, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Indeed very interesting. I must say, I am a bit worried about that > > one: > > > > ,---- > > | 8: How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the > > | foreseeable future? > > | Keep me alive. :-) > > `---- > > > > I agree. I have been using and contributing to Vim for the past 20 years. > I have seen many Vim users and developers come and go (in this and > the previous mailing list). The only constant is Bram. Without Bram's > involvement, I think the Vim development will come to a stop :-(
No doubt that Bram has and is guiding Vim's current development, and it wouldn't be the tool it is today without that. However, the reality that Bram won't be able to do this has been discussed various times before, usually as part of a "Why can't we change X about the existing development style?" thread. There are various people that have contributed to Vim that would likely step up to help if Bram were to stop. Although I'm not entirely fond of how Neovim came about, I do think it is strong evidence of this. The question, IMO, is really where on the spectrum between Bram's deliberate, conservative style and Neovim's more fluid, open style things would fall. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]> -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
