[hrokr]

It's interesting that the increase in Vim commits is concurrent with the fist release of NeoVim. They've certainly both been good for each other and I'm hoping this won't change with Bram's passing.

[turndown]

Forking is usually good for the community around a piece of software but I struggle to find who made this argument originally

[kaba0]

I think it is only good when the software has slowed down development. Otherwise it just needlessly splits the community.

[The_Colonel]

Vim was mostly a one man show. I doubt it will be meaningully developed apart from bugfixes and such.

[arp242]

> Vim was mostly a one man show.

No, it wasn't, and hasn't been since the 90s (most of the gvim code was written by others back in the day, to give an example of a large body of code not written by Bram). There have been many people contributing, and some of them for years.

Yes, Bram was the BFDL and the only one committing patches, but don't confuse that with "one man show".