The Emacs dumper dispute [LWN.net]

The Emacs dumper dispute

Posted Dec 1, 2016 10:17 UTC (Thu) by SEMW (guest, #52697)
In reply to: The Emacs dumper dispute by karim
Parent article: The Emacs dumper dispute

For what it's worth, Vim has been accruing plugin bindings for various languages for a while; it now supports ruby, python2, python3, perl, lua, and tcl plugins.

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The Emacs dumper dispute

Posted Dec 2, 2016 15:56 UTC (Fri) by tome (subscriber, #3171) [Link] (1 responses)

One problem that vim (which I love BTW) shares with emacs is a lack of C-level internals-savvy developers. If Bram gets hit by a bus, perish the thought, it will be a long time before vim development again progresses at its current speed, which is already slower than emac'es.

The Emacs dumper dispute

Posted Dec 2, 2016 16:07 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Vim codebase is nowhere near Emacs' level of bogosity. It's mostly straightforward clean C.

And there are alternative projects to improve Vim. Personally, I'm donating to https://neovim.io/ - it's a very nice project. I'm planning to sponsor the development of next version of MidnightCommander based on it.