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by 3eb7988a1663 119 days ago
NeoVim tossed significant amounts of legacy code (eg 8.3 filename support) and greatly improved out of the box default configuration. You cannot merge the two without upsetting one camp or the other. Vim wants to continue to be a stable platform that runs on 40 year old hardware. NeoVIM wanted to ditch the cruft that no longer makes applies.
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I say we embrace the diversity of both