On this special edition of The Changelog, we tell Vim’s story from the mouths of its users. Julia Evans, Drew Neil, Suz Hinton, and Gary Bernhardt join Jerod Santo for a deep and wide-ranging discussion about “the best text editor that anyone ever wrote.”

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Featuring:

• Julia Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, X
• Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Gary Bernhardt – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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