alt.hn

6/7/2026 at 6:37:03 AM

Vim Classic 8.3 Released

 https://vim-classic.org/news/vim-8.3-released.html

by tempodox

6/7/2026 at 9:43:56 PM

I think I missed part of the story. Is there something wrong with Vim 9? Is it heavily LLM-driven now? That's the only hint I could find on the Vim Classic site.

by filchermcurr

6/8/2026 at 7:44:45 AM

With respect to the creator, Vim9 script is inferior to Lua in terms of adoption, learning curve, stability, features and probably performance. If the purpose is to serve users a new DSL is not really defensible when Neovim has proved Lua works

by mi_lk

6/8/2026 at 6:49:43 AM

I only noticed it when a slew of security holes (re-)introduced by uncritical merging of LLM code got CVEs assigned.

Luckily I was lazy running a custom build of vim and hadn't updated since they started lowering the merge barrier (or however you can put this politely).

by Chu4eeno

6/7/2026 at 12:55:56 PM

I wouldn’t have taken this project seriously without the byline on this post of Drew DeVault. Glad he’s doing ok.

by nxrabl

6/8/2026 at 6:54:59 AM

I'm not a fan of him, but I'm still glad he picked up this.

Just take a gander on the recent issues listed here, and how completely unavoidable they are: https://github.com/vim/vim/security

I hoped the people that wanted neovim features would've stuck to neovim instead of pushing vim to accelerate, but it seems like free LLM tokens made it a bit too tempting.

edit: I'm regarded, I misread your post, ignore me.

by Chu4eeno

6/8/2026 at 3:17:01 PM

Regarded?

by NuclearPM

6/8/2026 at 8:44:15 PM

it’s doing a funny on “retarded”

by sitzkrieg

6/8/2026 at 12:16:31 AM

I remember talking to him a lot on #minecraft on freenode over a decade ago.

by nosrepa