Re: Official petition for Bram Moolenaar to become a front end developer

Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Saturday, August 3, 2013 4:59:49 PM UTC-5, Andrew Ray wrote:
> > Bram clearly writes a lot of C code. The only "indent" Vim has built in by default is "cindent" (did this come from vi? I don't know). But, times have changed. Developers now write a lot of javascript and html. Vim is not so good at javascript and html. Indenting, for example, is very poor for most front end related languages....
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> > Bram can keep writing C code, but it should be on the back burner....
> >
> > If you want Bram Moolenaar to become a front end developer
>
> I'm not sure what exactly Bram does at Google...but it's a safe bet
> they keep him busy, and he's working with software in some way.

Frontends are written in Java, C++ or a similar language. And yes, I
work on some of these (and you probably used it, if you use Gmail or
Google search :-).

> I'd wager he uses Vim for it as well, and might even get inspiration
> for new features and fixes while doing so.

Sure. Editing JS with Vim works quite well, just a few corner cases
that have a problem.

Editing HTML is a pain. I hope someone fixes the indent plugin for
that. And no, it's not going to be part of core Vim, a plugin should be
able to handle it.

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