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The State of Vim
state of Vim 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.
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. In May 2024, he received an automated message from Google informing him that all content from the vim-dev list had been blocked due to spam or malware. He also noted that it is easier these days to collaborate across languages thanks to ChatGPT and translation tools, but it still happens that some users do not communicate in English well, and that makes it harder to understand their needs.
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