Vim is one of the software I use almost everyday. I've almost never seen it segfault. You are doing something very experimental or running some stuff that maybe is not just suitable to be used with VIM.

What is this async stuff you are talking about ?

> What is this async stuff you are talking about ?

Something vim cannot do, that other editors can. It's called an event loop. Vim only ever does anything based on user interaction. Sometimes you may just want to sit back and have vim do things even though you hadn't typed something recently. Like pair program remotely, have a clock, get notifications, all kinds of timed things.

For many of these, there are better solutions than shoving them into vim. You can easily add a clock to a hardstatus line in screen or tmux. You can also use these for pair programming, reasonably easily. Notifications are better piped through notify, so you see them even if vim hidden.

This isn't to say there's no legitimate use for async processing in vim - just trying to be helpful to anyone wanting these particular things.

Okay cool, I get it. Thanks for the info. Yeah I see these could be useful in a modern environment. But nothing really beats (at least for me) the expressive way I can edit text in VIM.

I would love to see some of the more modern stuff implemented into VIM, like the whole page code scroll preview from Sublime Text.

You are making an ad hominem argument against vim's 'stability' using the fact the dev list has seg faults at the top. As a matter of course, seg faults/crashes are the most irritating bug a program can encounter. When they occur and are repeatable, it's likely they would become a popular topic of discussion, regardless of the frequency in which they occur.

Vim's stability and the occurrence of certain seg faults in it may appear to be related, but it isn't proof one leads to the other just because it's on some list somewhere.

I consider the term 'stability' to be related to overall dependability. I depend on vim on a daily basis, as do others here. It's yet to let me down.

This is the first time I see someone using "ad hominem" when they refer to (apparently valid) critisism of software quality.

I've certainly seen people being passionate about software but this is new. ;)

It is not as bad as you make it sound. We are currently seeing many segfaults because of the release of 7.4 and its inclusion of a new regexp engine. Other then that, there are not more segfaults then usually, which is not that bad.