Vim Creator Bram Moolenaar’s Forgotten Programming Language, Zimbu
Summary
The New Stack revisits Bram Moolenaar's Zimbu, a personal project that aimed to simplify code readability with features like optional braces and semicolons, capitalization-based keywords, and mixed typing. It covers Zimbu's portability vision, including a Zimbu Web Toolkit for server and client code, and notes that the language has little to no active users today, with forks existing but no ongoing development. The piece uses Zimbu as a lens on language design decisions and the challenges of sustaining experimental languages.