8 months ago

The creator of one of the most popular programming editors of all time, Vim, has died after a brief illness. You may not have known Bram Moolenaar’s name, but all developers know his open source programming editor, https://www.vim.org/. His family has reported to the Vim announcement list that https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4.

Under his guidance, Vim became one of the most popular code editors in the world. Vim was based on Unix’s Vi, a screen-oriented text editor created by Bill Joy that proved to be immensely popular.