It’s a Swedish software consultancy firm

Neovim is a fork, but it also contributes a lot back to Vim. Patches that are compatible with both editors are generally first contributed to Vim, and then merged into Neovim.

Freedom and Unix-like

attack the big corporations instead

That’s the problem though. How do you even do that?

I’m not sure which is worse. I mean most desktop programs are just glorified web browsers anyway (i.e Electron)

Neovim is awesome

It should be noted that as long as you’re on Neovim you can still keep your VimScript plugins and your VimScript config and gradually start using Lua plugins and Lua scripting. You don’t need to do a complete rewrite over night.

There’s no real downside to switching to Neovim. It’s basically a superset of Vim, only with better defaults and more capabilities that you can opt-in to if you’d like (Treesitter, native LSP client, Lua, etc.).