Mastering Vim

Why make another Vim?

Neovim is a fork of Vim, that branched out into its own thing in 2014. Neovim aims to address a few core issues about Vim:

• Working with a 30-year-old code base while maintaining backward compatibility is hard.
• It's very difficult to write certain kinds of plugins, asynchronous operations being a huge culprit (asynchronous support has been added to Vim in version 8.0, some time after Neovim was forked).
• In fact, writing plugins is difficult overall, and requires the developer to be comfortable in Vimscript.
• Vim is difficult to use on modern systems without tinkering with .vimrc.

Neovim aims to solve these problems with the following methods:

• Large-scale refactoring of the Vim code base, including choosing a single ...