nvim/History
Neovim history
- nvim emerged in 2014 as a community fork of vim, motivated by limits in Vim’s then-development model and a desire for built-in async tooling, better testability, first-class Lua, and defaults closer to what modern users expect—without abandoning Vim’s modal editing model.
Creators and early leadership (selected)
- Person/Thiago de Arruda Padilha — initiated the public fork and much of the early technical direction.
- Person/Justin M. Keyes — core maintainer and long-standing project leadership (releases, design, and day-to-day stewardship).
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