Very sad news - been using vim for decades, still use it every day as pretty much all of my colleagues use VSCode... I met him briefly at FOSDEM 20+ years ago, will have to see if I can find the photo I took of him looking slightly bemused when I showed him vim running on a Linux-ified iPaq with a touchscreen and no keyboard!
As others have said, time to make a donation in his honour.
As others have said, time to make a donation in his honour.