[fatbird]

Respectfully, given what you've said, you should look at neovim. It's not a fun project to reimplement vim, it's a fork due to vim's (i.e., Bram's) previous reluctance to advance vim with new features like async.

Since they've forked it, they've done an amazing job cleaning up the codebase, modernizing the toolchain and implementing great async support, while maintaining almost perfect compatibility with vim. They've also created a real development community where many people participate equally, not just trying to get the "bus factor of 1" commit bit holder to accept their patches.

I switched a year ago, brought all my plugins with me, and have seen only improvements in performance and features. If I had to choose which would survive for the next 30 years, it would be neovim. Thiego Arruda is the best example of an open source leader. I have a deep respect for Bram Moolenar and what he did with vim, but until neovim came along, vim was sclerotic and getting worse. It speaks well of Bram that when real competition came along, he returned to active development of vim.