The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on “the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.

  • @thenextguy
    6•6 hours ago

    I scrubbed through it quickly.

    First half is about housekeeping, history, funding, etc.

    Second half is about future directions and it seems conservative. No huge changes planned, other than a new website. :) Discussed encouraging new developers, polling users for what to do next, maintaining quality.

    Ended with some q&a.

    9.2 will include XDG (.dotfiles) and Wayland support.