The Neovim section participates in the popular sports of ganging up on top developers who have spent decades of their life in the public interest, for free.
The Neovim developer is called its "author", which is poor form and probably a copyright violation. Go and write your own editor from scratch.
The only place that the developer of neovim is referred to as its “author” is in a quote. But also, I didn’t get this impression at all while reading the article.
I don’t know. I don’t think the author paints him in a particularly bad light. It mostly seems to be trying to point out why neovim was made, specifically that its authors valued different things than the author of vim.
I also think the amount of work that’s gone into neovim is way more than enough to call the authors authors at this point. The forking of vim doesn’t seem to me to be “tak[ing] over code based in order to cruise on other people‘a hard work,” but open source working as intended. The neovim authors were able to take a project, adjust it to fit with their values, and let people decide which they prefer.
You and thread OP seem to have signed up just to make these comments. Do you think your obvious bias against Neovim is coloring your perceptions of the piece? Because it is not about trashing Vim or Moolenaar.
author (plural authors)
The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
A fair and pretty commonly used word for describing someone who wrote something. Are you also pissed off when a group of lawmakers are referred to as "the authors of a law"?
i am both a vim and neovim user. i dont see any ganging up here.
the difficulty of getting patches into vim is a fairly well known fact and is much older than neovim. the vim codebase is a horrible mess of ifdef's supporting platforms that haven't existed for years.
and vim wasn't written from scratch either, it was based on an earlier clone.
the sad truth is that neovim was a godsend for the vim community because bram finally woke up and put into vim what the neovim people were offering him for free in the spirit of open source before creating neovim.
The Neovim developer is called its "author", which is poor form and probably a copyright violation. Go and write your own editor from scratch.