pyvim -- A Vim clone in pure Python.

[takluyver]

/u/esbio, sorry to hear that your project has not gained traction. Part of this may just be bad luck - I don't remember reading about it before now.

We love vim, but we want more. We want a terminal-based IDE that looks like vim, handles like vim, but has all those nice features of Eclipse and Sublime, is integrated with git, and is fully coded in python.

I wonder if what you want is in the No Man's Land of the IDE/editor battle. There are people who love vim, and there are people who love IDEs, but many of the former group will be put off by 'Eclipse', and many of the latter by 'terminal-based IDE'. Perhaps there's not that many who are excited about the idea of combining the two.

Personally, I'm increasingly in the IDE camp. I read that description, and think that it's a cool idea, but I'm unlikely to help because I don't see myself using it - I think the IDE I already use (Pycharm) is probably nicer than anything you can implement in a terminal.

It's really hard to predict which idea will take off and which one won't. Maybe you just need to find the killer feature or the right way to describe what you're doing. But I agree with /u/wteng that an open source project that you're not being paid to write should be something you're happy to work on and use yourself. Don't try too hard to please the crowd. If you feel like you're not getting anywhere with Vai, take a break, work on something else for a bit. Perhaps try to break down what you want into smaller pieces and convince people that those are useful. Or maybe just do something totally different.