[wvlia5]

There was a time when Bram Moleenar refused to do any updates to Vim, until Neovim came along.

[mmooss]

Bram Moolenaar updated Vim periodically for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)#Versions

The complaint, including from the Neovim founder, was that Moolenar rejected their update.

[wvlia5]

Ah! That's the full story, interesting. The rejected update was making plugins asynchronous.

[saila]

Now that he's no longer with us, I don't think comments like this are necessary.

[quasarj]

Being dead has no impact on the truth, actually.

[wvlia5]

I just learned that he passed from Wikipedia.

I remember he used to get a lot of flak on HN for not wanting to update vim, back in the days.