A major political agenda of Vim is to support children in Uganda. A message about that is displayed whenever you open Vim’s start page. Bram Moolenaar insisted on users donating to the ICCF charity instead of to him, making Vim a very political editor in my view.

Bookmarked. When the question comes up again, this article will be a good reply because it really brings many of my own thoughts to the point.

While there certainly is some overlap, Python is a scripting language and not a shell language. Some tasks that involve calling lots of different programs and juggling input and output streams are much easier done in bash than in Python.

This blog post goes into some specifics of Rust reusing Vec allocations and some of the consequences. I think it’s really worth a read to better understand Vecs. From what I understand, it is possible that Rust will reuse the allocation of vec_a in your case, but it ultimately is quite complicated.

I won’t argue with you that bash is janky and easily insecure, but what shell language do you think should replace bash?