Sunday, May 25, 2014

Wednesday 5/28 - The State of Neovim

WHAT:
St. Louis Vim Geeks: “The State of Neovim” by Kyle Pointer

WHERE:
CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105

WHEN:
Wednesday, March 28th, at 6:30pm

The State of Neovim

According to the Neovim Github project page at https://github.com/neovim/neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:

  • Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
  • Split the work between multiple developers
  • Enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source
  • Improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture

It all sounds promising, but is it really going to happen? And is it even a good idea?

Kyle Pointer’s going to bring us up to speed on all things NeoVim, including:

  • Why?
  • What’s new?
  • Who’s doing it?
  • What works?
  • What doesn’t?
  • How can I help?

It promises to be interesting (and maybe even a little controversial).

Drinks and Food and Stuff

RSVP by replying to this message (either on the list, or privately to me), and we’ll be sure to have enough food and drinks for everybody.

When and Where

We’ll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 28th, in the usual place:

CAIT (The Center for the Application of Information Technology) Classroom 24 5 N. Jackson Ave St. Louis, Missouri 63105

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/b8r9

Forsyth MetroLink Station: http://bit.ly/PuOJ6a

CAIT provides detailed driving directions and parking information here:

http://www.cait.wustl.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37

(Don’t worry about the parking permit stuff. It doesn’t apply to us.)

Make sure you reply to this message to RSVP!

See you there, Bill