Aaron
No, you really can’t.
Gf: did you look for yourself?
Me: freezes
Reality’s an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold! Byeeee!
Bram obviously gave so much to the global community, and directly to Uganda through his persistent charity efforts, and no more need be said about what a devoted and generous person he was. We’d all truly be worse off without his contributions and I say that as a devout Emacs user.
Still, it always rubbed me wrong that his stated plan for the project was immortality.
How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future?
Keep me alive.
Bram was notoriously possessive of the Vim project and consistently avoided bringing in other lead maintainers or adding widely demanded features (like async processing). Maybe that changed while I wasn’t paying attention, but it had a lot to do with the very successful neovim fork. Bram eventually added an async feature but not before neovim exploded in popularity.
It’s tragic to hear of Bram’s passing, and at such a young age. I will be interested to see what happens to the Vim project now, in his absence.
Jehova’s witnesses aren’t allowed to wear yellow come on. They can wear any other color though as long as it’s black or white.
I’m happy to see Inkscape continue to get big updates!
I recently got a pen plotter and Inkscape is the main way anyone feeds drawings into these things so it’s good to know it’s being looked after.