fwiw i've opened an issue asking to remove the endorsement on neovim website's bug tracker, and we should have clarity as to the neovim's position regarding dhh one way or another.
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@brentsimmons #Emacs 's evil is only evil in name BTW.
@brentsimmons Dude's a case of someone succumbing to narcissism. I saw he's been theorizing that one day Ubuntu may be based on Omarchy.
At least the guys over on /r/unixporn don't think they'll change the world with their dotfiles.
@brentsimmons if you don't want to look into vim since it has become slopware, there's a fork of the last known slopfree version of vim (9.1), evi
@brentsimmons I have fun time with helix (it's not perfect, of course), though it might along different (software engineering) lines than what got into neovim.
Anyways, sharing a thing that I enjoy so far :)
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so the neo stands for neo-nazi... good to know ig
@brentsimmons Maybe that LLM they use to randomly generate code told them it was ok!
@brentsimmons That… seems pretty extreme, tbh…
@mackuba considering that dhh is a white supremacist calling for ethnic cleansing – seems rather un-extreme.
fwiw i've opened an issue asking to remove the endorsement on neovim website's bug tracker, and we should have clarity as to the neovim's position regarding dhh one way or another.
@mackuba What is? Not wanting to be involved with software that openly quotes and supports a genocidal white supremacist? Like that just seems like basic decency
@brentsimmons +1 for Helix. Or Helix mode in Zed, at least.
@brentsimmons if you're looking for "interesting" modal editors, Helix is a good one, with a different take on the medium from vi
@brentsimmons I'm not going to stop using Neovim over it, but it's not even a good quote. He might as well have said “I'm a world-renowned piece of shit!”
@brentsimmons <nods very approvingly>
@brentsimmons Haven’t been to the website in ages. Very disappointed to see that up there…
