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by coldtea 4373 days ago
>"Things Vim can never have"? Details please.

He gave several, did you read the article?

A proper extension mechanism for one.

A GUI that's not just monospaced fonts (or just some stylized buttons triggering functions, as Gvim, MacVim etc).

Ans lots of other things. As a matter of fact, a team even started refactoring Vim itself a few months ago, because they feel the current code doesn't cut it and they want to have a codebase that can be properly extended and get rid of all the legacy cruft.