alt Hacker NewsEVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim
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> https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi/issues/19
This does not inspire confidence in the maintainers.
Forker’s bio:
https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor
”I am NerdNextDoor, an autistic OS developer from Scotland who is heading to College soon with the end goal of doing Computing Science in University with some experience in (not much of any, but a bit of) Kuroko, C and Assembly in some architectures.”
Indeed.
I tried to find any recent issues related to AI in the Vim repo, but did not find any.
Offending commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/fc00006777594f969ba8fcff67...
Just Claude as a co-author.
> to build further upon the foundations of Vim, while avoiding AI taint.
Did I miss something ? Where is the AI Taint coming from ?
Honest question: why would anyone use Vim and not NeoVim nowadays? I've switched what, 12 years ago? And I've never had to look back. Just curious, to be honest. Especially since neovim is full of new features, while the Vim9 scripting language kind of tanked
This kind of news are about nothing. Tell me in a year, even in 3 months, how your fork has been doing. Clicking Fork on gh and writing a blog post is not a fork. A fork is a lot of work. Color me surprised if this will even keep up with the upstream just filtering out the AI commits.
I was going to comment how it might be ironic to call the project evil instead, but remembered that's the name for the vim emulation on emacs.
Same motivation, different generation. I carry my own fork of vim 5.7, from around 2000. It did what I needed, and did it well, and I could already see where it was going.
SMH at what I see in it now!
> while avoiding AI taint
Don't be shy. Tell us what you really think.
Why am I entirely unsurprised that this anti-LLM hard fork is hosted on Codeberg? At this rate, how likely is it that Codeberg is just going to become a wasteland of abandoned ideological forks (with the exception of one or two major projects) by next year?
It would be nice if specific offending portions of the codebase were highlighted. As of now, it’s hard to see why one should use this fork. Also, since the source is available, anyone can just compile a past version of vim.