Find modern & maintained replacement for Vundle.vim

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• Vundle.vim now appears to be unmaintained
• Vundle.vim Wiki has been the target of malware URL wiki-edit bot attacks
• Old .vimrc repo is currently unusable as a result
  • Seems that this was never actually integrated into LyraPhase/sprout-wrap anyway 🤷
  • No current hosts use this configuration
  • Yet, a need has arisen to provide an easily installable set of working Vim plugins + configs

Therefore:

• Investigate alternatives to Vundle.vim

  • Pathogen.vim
    • Pros:
      • Mature & older project
      • Maintainer is experienced vim plugin + Ruby developer (tpope)
      • Commit frequency slowing since 2014
    • Cons:
      • Syntax / DSL is very vim-like and not too similar to Bundler tools
      • Maintainer's README recommends using Vim 8's :package instead 🤷
      • Single developer.. unsure how sustainable OSS maintenance is
      • Commit frequency slowing down since 2017, but still active recently enough 🤷
  • vim-plug
    • Pros:
      • Currently maintained (It's junegunn of fzf fame!)
      • Parallel installation via vim compiled with language flags / NeoVim
      • Review & rollback updates!
      • Seems simple to bootstrap from zero
      • Simple DSL syntax like Bundler tools
    • Cons:
      • Single developer.. unsure how sustainable OSS maintenance is
      • Commit frequency slowing down since 2017, but still active recently enough 🤷
  • Vim >= 8.x built-in :package
    • Pros:
      • Built-in to Vim >= 8.x
      • All supported platforms are on at least Vim 9 now
      • Many maintainers + years of Vim project being maintained as OSS
    • Cons:
      • Seems harder to bootstrap
      • No concept of update/pull from release repos
      • Must "roll your own" bootstrap scripting
  • dein.vim
    • Pros:
      • Currently maintained
      • Async install
    • Cons:
      • Interface is a bit clunky via :dein commands
      • Not sure about ease of bootstrapping from zero due to following:
      • Seems like Windows CR LF line endings are only supported by default
  • NeoBundle
    • Pros:
      • Based on Vundle, but newer
      • Claims it's faster
    • Cons:
      • No longer maintained

      • Active developement on NeoBundle has stopped. The only future changes will be bug fixes.

  • Volt
    • Pros:
      • Based on Vim 8 packages feature
      • Supports multiple Profiles (a set of plugins, vimrc, and gvimrc)
      • Version locking
    • Cons:
      • Single developer.. unsure how sustainable OSS maintenance is
      • Commit frequency slowing down since 2019
      • plugconf DSL syntax is very vim-ish and unlike Bundler tools
      • Seems like volt get command + VOLTPATH is very GoLang-like
  • Some distribution e.g. Janus? (Note, currently appears unmaintained also)
    • Janus
      • Pros:
        • Multiple maintainers
      • Cons:
        • NerdTree plugin is flaky
        • Commit frequency slowing down since 2018
        • Project is admittedly in Maintenance phase as per a maintainer
    • SoxinOS/soxin
      • Pros:
        • Based on NixOS nixpkg for reproducible installs
      • Cons:
        • Nothing yet relating to Vim :-(
        • Announcement
    • Others?
      • Pros:
        • Could be easier to setup if done right
      • Cons:
        • Maintentance of OSS + single maintainer problems
        • Probably better off building your own config

• Re-implement automated installation (e.g.: lyraphase_workstation::vimrc)

• Add support for VimIcons + NerdFonts

• Add syntastic

• Add / investigate coc.nvim + add pylance config:

  "pylance": {
    "enable": true,
    "filetypes": [
      "python"
    ],
    "command": "pylance-language-server",
    "args": [
      "--stdio"
    ],
    "initializationOptions": {},
    "settings": {
      "python.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "basic",
      "python.analysis.diagnosticMode": "openFilesOnly",
      "python.analysis.stubPath": "./typings",
      "python.analysis.autoSearchPaths": true,
      "python.analysis.extraPaths": [],
      "python.analysis.diagnosticSeverityOverrides": {},
      "python.analysis.useLibraryCodeForTypes": true,
      "python.analysis.autoImportCompletions": true,
      "python.analysis.completeFunctionParens": false
    }
  }
  

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