I've been skimming the newsgroup(s) and browsing the commit logs for the past few weeks. It is definitely progressing.
I think they didn't quite realise how many people were going to want to be part of it, during the fund raising, and so a lot of effort has gone into coping with the large amount of work from multiple people, merging in patches from the 'main' VIM trunk, etc.
There's been a huge amount of pruning - which is still on-going - of old deprecated stuff. For instance, the X11 interface stuff is being simplified (for now) into just the GTK interface.
The original author of the neovim concept (Thiago) just posted: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/neovim/R_jXItMXN4E saying that now he actually has someone to take over a lot of the community stuff, which should free him up to work hard on some of the original actual coding fundraising goals - which is excellent.
In some ways, thinking about it, it's probably good that he delayed it, as it means that there's been a lot of extra eyes going over the code of the whole project cleaning things up so that the new features aren't going to conflict too much with other bits being removed.
There's one of the guys who's a vimscript genius working on the lua/vimscript side of things, which will get merged in at some point once it's ready. It's essentially a completely separate project until it's ready though.
I suspect the first of the big project 'features' to be done will be the libuv stuff - which again, will have little to actually see as a user. Once that's done, and then the lua scripting stuff is done, after that then new features are possible.
Even now, though, the difference in the code is dramatic, and it's constantly getting minor cleanups and improvements along the way.
I think they didn't quite realise how many people were going to want to be part of it, during the fund raising, and so a lot of effort has gone into coping with the large amount of work from multiple people, merging in patches from the 'main' VIM trunk, etc.
There's been a huge amount of pruning - which is still on-going - of old deprecated stuff. For instance, the X11 interface stuff is being simplified (for now) into just the GTK interface.
The original author of the neovim concept (Thiago) just posted: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/neovim/R_jXItMXN4E saying that now he actually has someone to take over a lot of the community stuff, which should free him up to work hard on some of the original actual coding fundraising goals - which is excellent.
In some ways, thinking about it, it's probably good that he delayed it, as it means that there's been a lot of extra eyes going over the code of the whole project cleaning things up so that the new features aren't going to conflict too much with other bits being removed.
There's one of the guys who's a vimscript genius working on the lua/vimscript side of things, which will get merged in at some point once it's ready. It's essentially a completely separate project until it's ready though.
I suspect the first of the big project 'features' to be done will be the libuv stuff - which again, will have little to actually see as a user. Once that's done, and then the lua scripting stuff is done, after that then new features are possible.
Even now, though, the difference in the code is dramatic, and it's constantly getting minor cleanups and improvements along the way.