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After many years of gradual improvement Vim now takes a big step with a major release. Besides many small additions the spotlight is on a new incarnation of the Vim script language: Vim9 script.

Today I’d like to talk about the package manager. Specifically, a lovely gateway into the rest of the ecosystem, nix-shell.

Some people will tell you that the point of Nix is to set up your software so it can be built with Nix, which allows you to tightly control all dependencies and emit something that is as close to reproducible as possible. I am all for this, but if we can tightly control the dependencies without actually building inside a Nix environment, we’ve still improved the reproducibility a lot, and it’s not that hard.

The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.