The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on “the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.
I scrubbed through it quickly.
First half is about housekeeping, history, funding, etc.
Second half is about future directions and it seems conservative. No huge changes planned, other than a new website. :) Discussed encouraging new developers, polling users for what to do next, maintaining quality.
Ended with some q&a.
9.2 will include XDG (.dotfiles) and Wayland support.
Thank you.
… and your reply.
What does wayland support mean in the context of vim? Like wayland clipboard or what?
One should probably search the commits for wayland but I am on mobile right now:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Avim%2Fvim+wayland&type=issues
Appears to be the GUI version and the clipboard support, yes.