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.

#Tech #Technology #Vi #VIm

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.

I don't understand why anyone should complain. ANYONE can fork the code for ANY reason, so long as it's in line with whatever licence applies to the code.

I hadn't heard about the vim troubles. I knew there were rumblings of something, but I hadn't yet looked what was up.

Thanks for taking the initiative and for raising my awareness. Looking forward to replacing vim installs.

The comments complaining about this and gram being "political statements"

Yeah, sort of like how the EFF, copyleft, etc are politically neutral.