After ten long years, the popular Vim (Vi IMproved) open-source and cross-platform text editor used by many programmers worldwide has received a major update that brings lots of interesting new features and improvements.
Prominent new features of Vim 8.0 include asynchronous I/O support, a brand new style testing, support for channels, GTK+ 3 support, DirectX support on Microsoft Windows platforms, JSON support, merge of the viminfo feature by timestamp, as well as support for jobs, timers, closures, partials, packages, and lambdas.
“After more than ten years there is a major Vim release,” says Bram Moolenaar. “It gives you interesting new features, such as channels, JSON, Jobs, Timers, Partials, Lambdas, Closures, Packages and more. Test coverage has been increased, many bugs were fixed, this is a rock stable version. Read more about it in the announcement.”
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