Bram Moolenaar Passed Away

Linux@lemmy.ml – 639 points – 11 months ago

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Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, has died.

If you are a vim user, consider donating to International Child Care Fund Holland - a charity Bram heavily supported. You can find the link on vim.org

:wq

I am truly and deeply saddened to hear this. My condolences to his family.

vim or vim-enhanced is one of the first things I install on any distro that doesn't have it included by default. I have been using it for decades and am so used to seeing Bram's name come up on the screen whenever I start the editor. His work greatly enriched my programming experience over the years and I am sure for countless other people as well. I don't know what to say except a heartfelt "Thank you, Bram".

Looks like we failed bram :(

https://www.binpress.com/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-interview/

It could be that we have transitioned into the unforeseeable future.

It most certainly feels that way, in more ways than one.

Especially No. 8

8: How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future? Keep me alive.

Looks like I picked a good time to learn emacs (with evil mode)

:wq ✊

Very sad. Like others here, vim is a huge part of my work. I even use qutebrowser for vim keys. From what I understood, he was the primary developer and gatekeeper for vim. I wonder if he had plans in place for when he was going to retire

I’m curious as well. Maybe I will re-consider neovim.

For my machines, I switched to NeoVim a while ago. There were certain instances when editing large files that Vim would lag and NeoVim doesn't. But I manage a lot of systems that are not my systems, so I use Vim on those.

I switched several years ago, back when neovim did async stuff and :term and supported things like ALE before vim8 implemented similar functionality.

So far, I haven't run into anything that neovim can't handle in my day-to-day, and it seems generally faster, but that's probably me falling for the "neo" in the name. Like how painting flames on the side of a car make it go faster.

He had publicly stated that keeping him alive was the only succession plan.

He might have been kidding though.

What an absolute legend. Hard to imagine many others with as significant of an impact on programmers all over the world. He will be greatly missed. RIP.

Oh wow this so sad. Ever since I used vimtutor the first time, Ive used vim keys in every editor I used. Hopefully the project keeps doing well without him, its a great piece of software.

My entire life has vim key bindings. My window manager and browser all have vim key bindings. I work in vim. I write my shopping lists in vim.

I really can't overstate how ingrained vim is in my day to day life. Bram had a big impact.

Same here OP

Bram will be missed. ✊🏾 :wq

Me too. I've used vim to make my living for at least the last 20 years.

I hope it ultimately re-organizes as more of a community effort now like neovim.

I don't want to sound like an asshole but maybe we all should focus on Neovim from now on. I find in much better than original Vim in many ways.

I am truly sorry to hear this. As a longtime Vim user, I cannot thank Bram enough for his massive contribution to software development and for his kindness. His legacy will live on, not only in Vim, but in all the communities he selflessly supported for so many years.

RIP. Even this Emacs user uses evil mode these days 🫡

Rest in peace.

:wq

I would imagine his family knows his direct impact at least somewhat but I wonder if they know how many lives have been changed by what was written with the tools Bram gave us. This one really unexpectedly hit me as aside from using vim, I've had zero interaction with Bram. But vim is such a big part of my life that I found myself tearing up a bit even though I was in the gym when I saw the news.