alt Hacker NewsTrue. But it’s not like they planned some vengeance against the VIM backup file.
People are making it sound like this is a huge company with a product and not a grouping of curious people with a couple hours of free time on a Sunday.
Most likely they never thought about it, then it broke, then it was not impactful enough to fix on their free time compared to other stuff.
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roryirvine • today at 4:46 PM
But they hold themselves out as being a normal software project, suitable for use by casual users. They even talk about having a "stable release" and advertise various sponsors.
If it's really just a toy with no expectation of not unexpectedly destroying user data then they ought to make that more clear.
They knew about it in advance. They decided people shouldn't care about that data.
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/13973#issuecomment-789...