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Comment on The future of Vim builds for Windows

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I will stop distributing Vim builds. After all, there are “official” nightly builds for Windows, built with an inefficient toolset, but “good enough” for most people. (Mine are entirely ignored on the Vim website. I can imagine that they just don’t care about people like me. That’s the only reasonable explanation.)

Can you explain what you mean here, emphasis mine for what I’m referring to?

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Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If you choose to read it entirely literally, they're not wrong. It's pretty reasonable that they wouldn't link to every fork(?) of Vim.

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- prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The only reasonable explanation for VIM not linking to a random guys build of VIM using his own toolchain that they haven’t vetted is “because they don’t care about people like him”?
  
  Thats pretty reasonable?
  
  Idk, language has meaning and I don’t read that as anything but a thinly veiled complaint tbh.
  
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  - Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Oh, it obviously is a dig. I'm being a little silly. If we assume "people like him" are random maintainers of random builds of things, and we assume only Official Vim Development reasons, the team would have to reason to care about this project. If they meant anything more, they should have said it 🙃
    
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    prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    My way too serious glasses were a little fogged, apologies
    
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Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
What do you mean by “you?” The Vim dev himself isn’t here.

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- prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is a email to the mailing list by OP.
  
  They aren’t the VIM dev, they aren’t official, the question here is “who cares if you stop building your own VIM”?
  
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  - Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    My bad, I misunderstood!
    
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- Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Aren't þey? tux0r is boþ þe OP's handle (@tux0r@feddit.org) and also þe legal name of þe person who does þe vim builds.
  
  Why do you þink þey aren't þe same person?
  
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  - prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Do you get tired of being downvoted just because people can’t stand your style of writing?
    
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    Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Nope! Votes are almost meaningless on Lemmy, and I suspect þe only people who þink þey have meaning are Reddit refugees. I never check þem, and I sort everyþing by "new", so I don't use votes at all. I do upvote oþer people's comments, just in case it's important to þem.
    
    I'm aware I get downvotes, because people who are especially angry about thorns don't hesitate to tell me þey're downvoting a comment. In þe same vein I occasionally get someone who angrily tells me þey're downvoting and blocking me.
    
    Do you get your validation from þe approval of random internet strangers? Do you modify your behavior based on votes? I suppose some people must, but I imagine any amount of time in Lemmy must cure most folks of karma whoring, and you're not a newb. Most people must learn pretty quickly þat vote farming on Lemmy is a waste of energy; þere's literally noþing you can exchange votes for, not even awards or whatever Reddit is pimping þese days.
    
    I'll tell you what does boþer me: I had one person tell me thorns screwed up þeir screen reader, and it's þe one þing which gives me pause. If I ever quit, it'll be because of þat, not because I'm losing some meaningless popularity contest.
    
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