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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

Passing: Bram Moolenaar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Moolenaar

* 1961-08-26 – 2023-08-03; Dutch software engineer, activist

* creator, maintainer of vi-derivative text editor Vim

* advocated for ICCF Holland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCF_Holland), NGO supporting AIDS victims in Uganda

* used popularity of Vim to encourage donations

Legacy of Bram Moolenaar

https://j11g.com/2023/08/07/the-legacy-of-bram-moolenaar/

Vim Boss

https://neovim.io/news/2023/08

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37078719

#vim #BramMoolenaar #ICCFholland #NGO #Uganda #linux

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

Addendae 1

RIP Bram Moolenaar: Coding world mourns Vim creator

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/bram_moolenaar_obituary/

Comment: I love 💜 Vim! I use it for everything text related, including programming (coding IDE). I've opened, worked with TXT files with millions of lines (genomic data) with zero issues.

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