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The author released NextVim, saying they used Zed + OpenAI to recreate Vim in Rust and Zig, with plans to implement a vim-script engine and vim-regex, using Zed’s rope/text core. Comments questioned “why,” while also noting that the vim-script engine is the real hard part and suggesting a Lua plugin layer as an option.
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