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[139.00 --> 155.04] We are back for a follow-up episode to episode 450 on VIM.
[155.04 --> 161.04] First of all, I want to say that I appreciate all of the positive feedback around our VIM episode.
[161.34 --> 164.06] We put a lot of work into that, and it sounds like everybody enjoyed it.
[164.12 --> 165.00] We're happy to hear that.
[165.58 --> 169.20] And one of the things that we heard over and over and over and again was,
[169.64 --> 170.36] When NeoVIM?
[170.70 --> 173.58] So similar to the crypto kitties say,
[173.64 --> 176.46] When Moon, the NeoVIM kitties were saying,
[176.88 --> 178.02] Hey, you've done VIM.
[178.02 --> 181.24] Now give us the NeoVIM treatment.
[181.50 --> 187.50] So by popular demand, we have TJ DeVries here to talk NeoVIM with us.
[187.54 --> 188.78] TJ, thanks for coming on the show.
[189.24 --> 189.90] Yeah, it's my pleasure.
[190.04 --> 193.66] Really excited to chat and just explore some fun topics together.
[194.06 --> 195.00] We are excited too.
[195.16 --> 201.92] And I have with me, not Adam Stack, it is Nick Neesey, my co-patriot at JS Party.
[202.06 --> 203.36] Nick, welcome to the changelog.
[203.80 --> 204.22] Hoi hoi.
[204.36 --> 205.30] I'm happy to be here.
[205.38 --> 206.86] Excited to talk about NeoVIM.
[206.86 --> 211.08] And just for the record, it wasn't just me hounding Jared to get a NeoVIM episode.
[211.48 --> 214.18] That wasn't your bot just telling me over and over again.
[214.86 --> 218.56] I can't confirm or deny that, but it wasn't me specifically.
[219.20 --> 223.84] Well, if you know JS Party, you know Nick is often trying to turn it into VIM Party.
[224.54 --> 227.12] And he brings up VIM whenever he has opportunity.
[227.36 --> 229.86] And he has been for a little while a NeoVIM user.
[229.96 --> 231.32] How long have you been on NeoVIM, Nick?
[231.78 --> 232.92] It's been a couple of years.
[232.92 --> 238.76] But I'm a recent convert to the NeoVIM 0.5 slash Lua lifestyle that I'm excited to talk
[238.76 --> 239.30] about today.
[239.30 --> 246.34] I will also confess that after our VIM episode and our modern Unix tooling episode, I've been
[246.34 --> 249.24] reinvigorated and I installed NeoVIM.
[249.44 --> 250.94] And I threw away my VIM config.
[250.94 --> 257.74] And I'm doing survivor style, which configs make it into the new config game, line by line.
[257.90 --> 259.28] And I'm having lots of fun.
[259.78 --> 265.38] I feel like a kid again, just tweaking and changing and kind of relearning how to use VIM.
[265.44 --> 270.34] Because I've been using it for a very long time in a dual capacity with a full-time GUI.
[270.44 --> 271.90] So I was on Sublime Text for years.
[272.10 --> 273.32] I switched to VS Code.
[273.32 --> 275.92] And I always had VIM open in a shell.
[276.14 --> 277.30] And I would use it on servers.
[277.30 --> 278.88] And I would use it kind of casually.
[279.12 --> 281.80] As you know from that episode, I always use VIM mode whenever available.
[281.98 --> 287.60] But I was not using it full-time as my programming editor until a few weeks ago.
[287.70 --> 288.30] So I'm back.
[288.60 --> 289.72] And I'm giving NeoVIM a try.
[290.20 --> 291.44] And I'm having a lot of fun.
[291.52 --> 293.30] But TJ, give us some of the backstory here.
[293.72 --> 295.54] Because NeoVIM has been around for a while.
[295.62 --> 298.36] And we've never done a show on it, despite multiple cries to do so.
[298.84 --> 300.04] Who created NeoVIM?
[300.20 --> 301.14] When did they start it?
[301.40 --> 301.76] Why?
[301.76 --> 303.40] Why did this have to exist?
[303.56 --> 303.92] Et cetera.
[304.02 --> 304.68] Give us the backstory.
[305.18 --> 305.32] Yeah.
[305.42 --> 310.56] So I think the main person who first started it was Tiago Taruda on GitHub.
[311.46 --> 314.08] And it was probably about 10 years ago.
[314.14 --> 315.60] I don't remember the exact date.
[315.98 --> 320.28] The main thing that happened was Taruda was really interested in getting
[320.28 --> 328.50] sort of some of the ability to run external jobs asynchronously from within VIM.
[328.90 --> 329.12] Right?
[329.12 --> 331.16] And that was the first main push.
[331.16 --> 337.06] And Taruda submitted some patches to VIM Dev, which is the mailing list for VIM.
[337.56 --> 342.50] But unfortunately, at the time, Taruda, the patches didn't work for Windows.
[342.50 --> 346.68] And there were some other problems that would have broken compatibility with like a lot of
[346.68 --> 349.08] the places that VIM expects to build.
[349.72 --> 354.46] And so due to that, it was sort of like this struggle of, I don't know if struggle is the
[354.46 --> 358.66] right word, but just sort of a difficulty trying to figure out how these features could work
[358.66 --> 363.62] within VIM and all the places that VIM needs to build and the size requirements and all these
[363.62 --> 364.06] other things.
[364.06 --> 364.30] Right.
[364.56 --> 370.42] Which are like super valid concerns to have if you're on all the places that VIM can build.
[370.58 --> 370.78] Right.
[370.84 --> 372.84] Like, do you want to still be able to do that?
[372.90 --> 377.14] That's one of the selling points is sort of the universalism of where VIM is.
[377.24 --> 379.48] He didn't have an old Solaris machine to test it on?
[380.04 --> 380.44] Right.
[380.44 --> 383.16] He did not make any patches that work there.
[383.62 --> 388.56] So basically, at that point, Taruda was kind of like, well, I don't want to necessarily
[388.56 --> 389.70] have to support those.
[389.80 --> 392.98] Like, I want to do different things that can work differently.
[393.08 --> 398.16] And I want to like push forward in some of these areas that might make us end up in a
[398.16 --> 400.18] place that's not the same place that VIM is.
[400.30 --> 400.46] Right.
[400.98 --> 404.28] And so Taruda basically started NeoVIM.
[404.28 --> 409.28] And then from there, Taruda also had several other sort of like large ideas in combination
[409.28 --> 414.06] with people like Justin MK, who's still part of the project, as well as Zix, who is one
[414.06 --> 417.56] of the largest early contributors to NeoVIM.
[417.72 --> 422.34] And they added other things like remote plugin support and started doing LUA scripting and
[422.34 --> 423.06] things like that.
[423.70 --> 430.18] But that was sort of the main branching point that started to allow NeoVIM to go down a separate
[430.18 --> 431.00] path from VIM.