Not sure why Bram doesn't believe that removing support for obsolete OSes such as MS-DOS, Amiga, and BeOs helps with Neovim's goal of simplifying the codebase and maintenance. Are there even any actual users of these systems that are disappointed that they won't be able to use neovim? If they're satisfied on those OSes surely they'd be satisfied with legacy vim.
That's not what he said. He said that Neovim's goals could be achieved without cutting out features and removing supports for exotic OSes.
>He said that Neovim's goals could be achieved without cutting out features and removing supports for exotic OSes.
That's the same as what parent said.
Neovim's #1 goal (from the webpage) is: "Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to simplify maintenance and encourage contributions". And other goals including adding new features for the future.
You might not 100% HAVE to drop "supports for exotic OSes" for that, but is extremely logical, and very much helpful in that direction.
Anything that reduces code size makes it easier for maintanance. You don't want to have to check how things play for those IFDEFS for Amiga OS when you write code for 2014.
That is why I started from scratch: