> In this case, the motivation was simply insufficient. Some people wanted vimscript+lua instead of vimscript. They felt the code was too difficult. They wanted to develop on their own.
> Couldn't they not convince Bram Moolenaar of proposed changes
I think (but someone correct me if I'm wrong) it started out with one of the persons who started Neovim, tried to get in a patch adding async support in Vim, but Moolenaar didn't want to merge it, for one or another reason.
That cascaded to a bunch of other reasons over time, like adding Lua support and trying to rely less on Vimscript.
But that's how I remember it being started at least, but I could remember it wrong.
> Couldn't they not convince Bram Moolenaar of proposed changes
I think (but someone correct me if I'm wrong) it started out with one of the persons who started Neovim, tried to get in a patch adding async support in Vim, but Moolenaar didn't want to merge it, for one or another reason.
That cascaded to a bunch of other reasons over time, like adding Lua support and trying to rely less on Vimscript.
But that's how I remember it being started at least, but I could remember it wrong.