Drew DeVault writes about the Vim situation re: AI slop infection, and he decided to make a long-term maintenance fork of Vim 8.x which is a very welcome alternative to any faster-moving forks that should appear.

As always, he also found the right words for the situation in general: https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

#vim #foss #floss #noai #antiai

A eulogy for Vim

@lu_leipzig I sometimes have issues with Drew but in this case he's talking my language. And I will probably track his fork into my ancient Debian 10 install eventually. 😉