NerdNextDoor 
I've been scouring the web for peoples opinion on #EVi and I'm seeing a lot of unfair assumptions and judgement for a project forked 3 days ago.
Don't mind if I vent for a second? Please read.
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We are not a startup, we have few contributors and even fewer maintainers. We are a group of volunteers trying to continue VIm without AI slop code. We barely know each other. This fork started 3 days ago, be realistic please.
We're also trying to take on a codebase that has been going for decades that only has fallen to the dark side now.
From lobste.rs to Lemmy to Hacker News, we’ve been getting shit left and right in comments for forking the project. This is not everyone however.
(https://lobste.rs/s/izprt4/evi_hard_fork_vim
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321085
https://lemmy.org/post/4418940)
This isn't a political move nor an ideological one. Not a fork out of spite. This is a fork out of preventing bad AI code that is also fucking our environment from seeping into programs we love.
We don't hate VIm, nor the lead maintainer, but we do not support their actions.
PointlessOne 
@mrmasterkeyboard since my comment turned out at the top (surprisingly) I feel I need to clarify that it was not so much about Evi as about news about fresh forks. I know it wasn’t you who posted it but a three days old fork is hardly newsworthy. All power to you. I’ll be glad to hear about how the fork’s going in a couple of months.
@pointlessone thanks for clearing that up, to be clear, I get what you mean about some forks that last about a day with nothing else there being a lot of fanfare about it. With EVi, me and a few other people plan to take the VIm 9.1.0 codebase and continue it further.
Bug fixes, maintenance, potential expansion of features, but our main concern is making sure we get CI and tests back up along with fixing any bugs we find. (I should make a roadmap with the others…)
@mrmasterkeyboard I hope you succeed.
BTW, NeoVim started in a similar fashion. IIRC, at first they just wanted to add Lua because they didn’t like vimscript. Ended up rewriting half the codebase and still going. But it’s a lot of work. Not every aspiring fork maintainer is ready for that.
@pointlessone thank you! We don’t plan to rewrite the codebase however (although that would be funny).
Martin Owens 
@mrmasterkeyboard @pointlessone
It's what happened to Sodipodi when it was forked into Inkscape. Rewritten from C to C++ and more besides.
Though I am disappointed you didn't call it Vie and move that E to the end. then headlines could be "Vim and Vie vie for control" 😜