Drew DeVault reflects on his deep personal relationship with Vim and mourns its direction after Bram Moolenaar's death, particularly the adoption of LLMs and AI-generated code in both Vim and NeoVim development. He criticizes generative AI broadly for its environmental, social, and political harms. In response, he has forked Vim as 'Vim Classic', based on Vim 8.2.0148 (just before Vim9 Script), backporting security patches and bug fixes while keeping the codebase AI-free. He invites contributors to help maintain it.
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