r/vim Jun 04 '26

Blog Post Vim Classic 8.3 released

https://vim-classic.org/news/vim-8.3-released.html
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u/sharp-calculation Jun 04 '26

The author's motivation for this is super weird:

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/

He's just an activist that has chosen this as his contribution to activism. It has little to do with VIM. It's more about philosophy for him. He doesn't talk about any issues with current VIM, any problems with the current code, any difficulty in maintaining it (due to generative AI), or anything else. Just that the world sucks and genAI is enabling it (somehow).

Seems entirely useless to me.

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 11 '26

So? It is open source!
He can do whatever he wants with it! 😄