Vim 8.0 released [LWN.net]

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 12:02 UTC (Wed) by jpnp (guest, #63341)
In reply to: Vim 8.0 released by nye
Parent article: Vim 8.0 released

I don't think it was, until, frustrated by the fact that patches for features such as async were being turned down, Neovim forked the code and set about some major refactoring as well as adding new features. This element of competition does seem to have spurred the development of the original vim on.

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Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 12:18 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Not to mention that Neovim, IIRC, dropped support for…obscure things like EBCDIC, old OS support, uses things like C99, etc. and is apparently a nicer place to develop in (the few times I've been in the Vim codebase were, thankfully, brief).

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 23:19 UTC (Wed) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link]

The release notes for Vim 8.0 mention that support for OS/2, MS-DOS and 16 bit Windows (95 and older) has been removed. The reason given for DOS removal is that "Vim doesn't fit in memory" :D