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by masukomi 1452 days ago
vim's support for legacy platforms is... IMNSHO extreme to the point of self-harm.

many of the systems it supports haven't received updates in decades and have essentially no users. The old versions work just fine on them, and require no changes because those systems aren't changing. There's no reason why _new_ versions of vim have to be held back by the need to work on ancient platforms.