From: Giles Orr via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
Vim won the `vi` clone wars, and pretty much ended them by 2015 (anyone else remember `vile` and `elvis`?). But Vim's code-base is (or at least was) crufty and had old, dead code. Bram Moolenaar (the primary Vim maintainer) was apparently also quite resistant to the addition of new features. This led to the NeoVim fork - the code base was cleaned up, and multiple new and useful features were used (without changing the basic expected behaviours). I switched years ago, and haven't looked back. I think it's been good for Vim too, as it forced Moolenaar to realize that he was losing users to this upstart project so he started moving forward more quickly. I think it's probably too little too late, but that fight isn't over yet.
Isn't it too late given that Moolenaar died in 2023?