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A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the :wq dept.

hubie writes:

Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.

"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."

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  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:09AM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:09AM (#725132)

    Nowadays, that stuff is still around, but decidedly obsolete.
      Well, no. There is embedded stuff, you know. Like the ECU in your car - or do you think it runs KDE and Systemd?

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