Vim Classic 8.3 Released

filchermcurr 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think I missed part of the story. Is there something wrong with Vim 9? Is it heavily LLM-driven now? That's the only hint I could find on the Vim Classic site.

	▲	MaxLeiter 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From the maintainer: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519308
	▲	mi_lk 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		With respect to the creator, Vim9 script is inferior to Lua in terms of adoption, learning curve, stability, features and probably performance. If the purpose is to serve users a new DSL is not really defensible when Neovim has proved Lua works
	▲	Chu4eeno 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I only noticed it when a slew of security holes (re-)introduced by uncritical merging of LLM code got CVEs assigned. Luckily I was lazy running a custom build of vim and hadn't updated since they started lowering the merge barrier (or however you can put this politely).

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nxrabl 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I wouldn’t have taken this project seriously without the byline on this post of Drew DeVault. Glad he’s doing ok.

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Chu4eeno 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not a fan of him, but I'm still glad he picked up this.

Just take a gander on the recent issues listed here, and how completely unavoidable they are: https://github.com/vim/vim/security

I hoped the people that wanted neovim features would've stuck to neovim instead of pushing vim to accelerate, but it seems like free LLM tokens made it a bit too tempting.

edit: I'm regarded, I misread your post, ignore me.

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NuclearPM 5 days ago | parent [-]

Regarded?

	▲	sitzkrieg 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		it’s doing a funny on “retarded”

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nosrepa 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember talking to him a lot on #minecraft on freenode over a decade ago.