Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept It Going

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Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept It Going

What happened to the Vim open source text editor after its creator Bram Moolenaar passed on in August 2023? Its community performed a quietly heroic effort to make sure his project stayed alive. Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt told the tale in late November at VimConf 2024. It was a true-life inspiring story of resilience, perseverance and commemoration. “What you can see is basically that the development did not stop,” Brabandt told his audie…