Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Re: Neovim predictions

On 19 March 2014, Liang Li <q335r49@gmail.com> wrote:
> This might be off topic, but I wonder if anyone will have the
> cajones or the spite to predict what will happen to Neovim in 1, 5,
> 10 years. Whether it will become the defacto Vim 8.0, whether it
> will just die out, whether it will be a parallel Vim. Will it be
> like Google Chrome, for example? Will it maintain a steady pool of
> developers? If Neovim had hypothetical stock, would you put in your
> life savings? Or will it die out for seen or unforseen reasons?
>
> Let's hear some predictions! The more specific or hilarious the
> better. For the amusement of posterity, I mean.

It's way too early to tell. The project certainly did attract a lot
of (mostly good) attention. So far it breaks more things than it fixes,
but that's to be expected at this stage. Right now the opening screen
looks like this on my machine:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3pptfbt2bsaeder/2014-03-20-074726_915x1096.png

Perhaps ask again, say, by the end of the year?

/lcd

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