Bram Moolenaar, creator and maintainor of Vim passes away:
(See the top news item. I couldn’t link directly on mobile)
Thank you for all your work. I used Vim for more than 25 years
Edit: heres a nice article about the history of vi.
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
Brams last commit to vim was a few weeks before he passed.
May his exit from this world, have been easier than exiting Vim.