Mtibaa: My custom Neovim framework would probably kill Cursor if open-sourced
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Yacine Mtibaa, a former X engineer and indie developer, discusses his custom Neovim framework and macro keyboard setup on TBPN.
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“It is a cursor competitor and it's probably going to kill cursor if I open source it, but I'm not going to sell for money.”
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