Vim-cocoa Alternatives

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neovim

1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script vim-cocoa VS neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
macvim

20 7,432 9.8 Vim Script vim-cocoa VS macvim

Vim - the text editor - for macOS
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vimr

19 6,560 9.5 Swift vim-cocoa VS vimr

VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift

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Is MacVim worth it?
6 projects | /r/vim | 6 Apr 2021

This project was before my time as it's more than a decade old (original page) and the project switched maintainer a few times already (I only became maintainer in 2018). But the basic story is Vim never really got a good gVim implementation for Mac. There was an old implementation for Carbon (now-deprecated API) in Vim but it was quite barebones, and hasn't been working for a while (just for reference you can see this thread which discussed removing the vestigial Carbon-based gVim implementation from the Vim source). Because of that, there were quite a few Vim forks that aimed to bring gVim to the Mac (MacOS 9, Mac OSX Carbon, macOS Cocoa). You can see a decent list of choices in this archived Vim download page. However, most of them were for older versions of macOS, and the closest one to MacVim, vim-cocoa, has not been updated for a while, meaning MacVim is the only actively-maintained gVim implementation for Vim now (not counting NeoVim).