Technically, Neovim started because the author wanted to add multi-threading to Vim but the patch was rejected. So they did try to contribuir to Vim first.

Not that I agree with your parent comment or anything (I don’t), I use Helix so don’t really have a dog in this fight, I think it’s fine for them all to coexist.

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aniviacat 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you know why it was rejected?

	▲	latexr 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s been too long, I no longer recall specifics. Wikipedia links to the patch’s discussion on Google Groups, if you care to read it. https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/65jjGqS1_VQ/m/fFiFrrIB... Vim 8 did add support for asynchronous jobs, due to the pressure of Neovim fork. https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/
	▲	worldsavior 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7279358