> User demand for a multi-threaded Vim (e.g. a patch for supporting multiple threads) and its rejection is what prompted the Neovim fork in January 2014. In his presentation, Moolenaar concedes that Neovim did create some pressure to add a way to handle asynchronous jobs.
I switched to neovim a while ago, because it supported 24-bit color themes in the terminal. Since then it seems even regular vim picked it up too. It's good to see that some pressure moved the project forward in different areas which were stuck forever before.
Though neovim already uses XDG base directory specification, but vim still doesn't.
It's pretty effortless to switch. For me, I found: .vimrc was compatible (but lives in .config/nvim/init.vim). Plugins were compatible (in fact, YouCompleteMe worked better). There was a little bit of faff setting up symlinks. In case you use Arch, it offers a package neovim-symlinks that handles that for you.
I switched to neovim a while ago, because it supported 24-bit color themes in the terminal. Since then it seems even regular vim picked it up too. It's good to see that some pressure moved the project forward in different areas which were stuck forever before.
Though neovim already uses XDG base directory specification, but vim still doesn't.