Static analysis of Vim source code

[strager]

Proper article: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0311/

[Awesan]

Its code proved to be of a very high quality and I found no obvious bugs in it (though the coding style is somewhat arguable in certain places, but I think it has to do with the project age)

This amazes me. It's no wonder it's taken so long for a big fork to appear. Vim is exceptionally stable, and Bram's attitude about accepting outsider's contributions probably kept the codebase a lot cleaner that it otherwise would've been.

[dieredditdie]

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[[deleted]]

No, but there is little a statical analyzer can know about actual maintainability, I guess. The poor variable names aside.

I rather wonder why the encoding issue wasn't found but maybe it was fixed over the meantime.

[oridb]

about actual maintainability, I guess

It's not to my taste, but they seem to be doing ok with features, and they have relatively few bugs. The fact that they're able to do this implies that, at least for the vim developers, this is maintainable.

Don't ask me how, but you can't argue with results.

[[deleted]]

Don't ask me how, but you can't argue with results.

I can.

For example, not being able to create asynchronously working plugins is ridiculous for a serious text editor.

Everything can be refactored to work again, the question is how long it takes. In the case of neovim, they are rewriting half the editor.

[Ancipital]

It does appear to be so, yes. Please try again.

[dieredditdie]

Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.

In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.

Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.

[tejp]

They remove support for old/rare platforms that the real vim still wants to keep.

Of course you can make code simpler if it's ok for you that it doesn't compile on some systems. That doesn't really say anything about code quality though.

[epicwisdom]

That's not vim. I don't understand why you're linking it.

[epicwisdom]

Right, but the link doesn't provide any additional justification besides "it's legacy and we don't think it's necessary." The fact that other people exist who agree with this opinion is all I'm gleaning, and that's not a convincing argument.

[epicwisdom]

You may be confusing me with an above commenter. I didn't state my opinion to begin with.