[FreeFull]

The author of kakoune initially intended to rewrite vim from scratch, so there is definitely a similarity. A big difference is that kakoune operates in terms of selections rather than motions, with built-in support for things like multiple cursors as well. I find it more intuitive to use than vim, and just as powerful.

[farresito]

Interesting. I've already given it a short try and I can see some differences. Do you use it as your main editor when you need to use an editor?

[FreeFull]

Yes, I do use it as my main editor (I have "vim" aliased to start kakoune instead). Knowledge on how to use kakoune doesn't seem to interfere when I need to use vim for some reason (such as ssh-ing into some machine that doesn't have kakoune).

[martanne]

I too find kakoune interesting and have recently begun to add multiple cursor/selection support to my vim like editor.

https://github.com/martanne/vis