Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.
The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.
Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.
The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Original Github issue where a user noticed it being written on a phone
(Screenshot in this post)
User posts a screenshot of conversation on r/neovim
(Plugin author replies as u/Exciting_Majesty2005)
Github issue trying to coordinate a GoFundMe or similar
Reddit post gets linked on Hacker News
Edit:
Small update, things in issue 218 have progressed to the point that donations are now accepted by US 501(c)(3) nonprofit Hackclub:
Ledger for donations so far
($1033 at time of writing)
Granted, I am not a software engineer, but in my personal experience I find simply using my smart phone to be convenient enough these days that transitioning into a different paradigm to accomplish a task almost always feels more inconvenient. Even when I want to or need to do a little bit of programming.
I guess I’m kind of wondering if anybody actually asked him why he doesn’t use a laptop, because it sort of seems like people are assuming that because he’s from Bangladesh, it must be because he can’t afford one and I think that’s extremely presumptuous and potentially hurtful.
Interesting! I wonder if it's an age thing or just personality or what. I feel the exact opposite, having to do anything outside the few routine things for which I use my phone feels horrible. Like there's this noticeable "blocked" or "constrained" feeling in my head, often before I even start, like I'm pre-annoyed.
Then again I feel limited even by a laptop when really working on a project, so maybe I just have some baked-in preference for "interface sprawl", maybe you'd call it.
It's the keyboard that gets me. Symbols are in weird places on most software keyboards, and the lack of physical feedback really destroys my typing accuracy. My fat fingers can't type the correct keys it seems, so I rely heavily on autocorrect, which doesn't translate well to code. It's simply tedious to write more than a couple of sentences.
inb4 he will use his phone to do remote development on his laptop