Thanks for this. I had the same read when I read the original thread. The authors were lazy and kind of petty in their responses to Bram. Put me off the neovim project because it seemed the authors didn't care about design.
Weird, so people who give justification for neovim and use that thread are wrong. Thanks.
Speaking of message-loop design. This is a typical design in the vast majority of GUI software where the center of the program is a message loop. I never realized the original vim didn't have that kind of design. What is it's design?
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