maximusjesse

6 years agodiscuss

Yeah, it's not an accurate indicator since various factors play into how many stars Neovim has, e.g. Vim is prebuilt into most OS distros, so lack of a need to download it, Neovim is more contributor friendly, etc. I highlighted this not to show the insignificance of Vim, but rather the rise of Neovim.

maximusjesse

6 years agodiscuss

Neovim definitely has significant market share, you can compare Github stars as one statistic to consider:

https://github.com/vim/vim - 20k https://github.com/neovim/neovim - 36.5k

This is in some part due to the fact that neovim has been on Github longer, but it's still a a major indicator.

Neovim has many benefits over Vim, and has been applying pressure on Vim for years to improve its own development and codebase. Nvim has first class support for Lua outside of Vimscript, which has enabled a lot of people to write more powerful plugins. A lot of NVim's featureset has been copied into Vim over the years (one of my favorites is the hover window, which has allowed IDE like support for code references/comments/source). Supposedly, Nvim's codebase is significantly easier to maintain and contribute to, due to the nature of having a community of contributors that built it from ground up, as opposed to one primary developer working on Vim.

The parity has reduced over the years, but Nvim has been significantly ahead in pushing new features and active development over Vim resting on its laurels.

maximusjesse

7 years agodiscuss

I was originally skeptical about Amazon's Twitch acquisition. However, in recent years, they've seem to integrate the product fairly well into their ecosystem. I feel for an acquisition less than $1b, Twitch is a steal in hindsight. Not sure how much money Twitch makes, but the ecosystem and users only seems to be growing.

maximusjesse

7 years agodiscuss

I think in this case, "clean" is the adjective for electricity. So, "Hello Energy will be the first to clean electricity." It's weird I think because it's easy to read it as a verb, but it's technically grammatically correct.

maximusjesse

9 years agodiscuss

I work at one of those big tech companies which has a huge number of services in its codebase in Java (you could properly guess the company). We use Kotlin daily for back-end services as a cleaner and more powerful Java, and we've migrated most of our original Java spring/rest projects to be in Kotlin. If you're familiar with Java-based stacks, I think it's fairly trivial to migrate to Kotlin first as a Java substitute before taking advantage of everything Kotlin has to offer, then slowly adopting Kotlin principles.

maximusjesse

10 years agodiscuss

I cringed on his behalf, it feels like he's preaching to ants.