What happened to the Vim open source text editor after its creator Bram Moolenaar passed on in August 2023? Its community performed a quietly heroic effort to make sure his project stayed alive. Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt told the tale in late November at VimConf 2024. It was a true-life inspiring story of resilience, perseverance and commemoration. “What you can see is basically that the development did not stop,” Brabandt told his audience in Tokyo. Every day there are fresh pull reques...