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by aniviacat 119 days ago
Do you know why it was rejected?
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It’s been too long, I no longer recall specifics. Wikipedia links to the patch’s discussion on Google Groups, if you care to read it.

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/65jjGqS1_VQ/m/fFiFrrIB...

Vim 8 did add support for asynchronous jobs, due to the pressure of Neovim fork.

https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/

And did so in its (or rather Bram's) own, incompatible with Neovim way. I imagine that's the biggest problem with Vim why Neovim was even created - hardcore NIH syndrome of Vim's main author.
Some good context...