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NeoVim: Vim's Re-birth for the 21st Century

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @04:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the cue-vim-emacs-war-in-5-4-3-2-1 dept.

Hell_Rok writes:

"Neovim is an effort to aggressively re-factor the Vim source code and improve on:

  • It will provide first class support for embedding.
  • It lets you extend the editor in any programming language.
  • It supports more powerful GUIs.
  • Vim plugins will work with it.

Hosted on Bounty Source it has reached $25,500 of it's goal of $10,000, although there are still 3 days to reach further stretch goals! You can view the projects current progress and even pitch in over at GitHub. As someone who has started using Vim full-time over the last 6 months I feel that this is a very good project for the longevity of Vim."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @04:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @04:49PM (#18946)

    What's the attraction in doing this off the existing codebase, and "aggressively refactoring" it to do things it was not designed to do, rather than starting "clean" and building something that innately supports the concepts you want? TextMate FTW.

    Because rewriting from scratch often leads to a project never succeeding.

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