If you go back to early stories of Bram, the BDFL, when others tried to add Neovim features to vim. He wasn't onboard. Not to discount all the amazing contributions he has done and his importance. But I just think it is karma.
If you read Thiagos's message about job/channel features you will notice a couple of points he made.
1. NeoVim made the channel/job feature first, so vim should follow it.
2. Vim's design is broken.
3. Bram should write new features for NeoVim first, why no PR's Bram?? Why no PRs to neovim?
Thiago is clearly an asshole. Sorry but I think Bram was reasonable and polite with his responses. His opinion about NeoVim's version is that it was too complicated, and he was right.
The problem is NeoVim started off on the wrong foot trying to throw away decades of work and then expecting Bram to implement new vim features? Seriously Thiago?
Me either.
If you go back to early stories of Bram, the BDFL, when others tried to add Neovim features to vim. He wasn't onboard. Not to discount all the amazing contributions he has done and his importance. But I just think it is karma.
Here is another hacker news post discussing the backstory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12481084
Here is a bit of shade tossed on the Neovim project back in 2014 by Bram: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/vim_dev/x0BF9Y0Uby...