Once you realise that it's, er, let's say, inspired by vim, you look at the logo and see that it's basically a clone of the vim logo/icon - the orange part of the K looks like the V in the vim icon, and the green lozenge background is almost exactly the same. Which makes it even stranger that they are trying to hide that - there is no mention of vi/vim on the site's landing page. Ok, I understand that they are wary that mentioning "vi(m)" could scare people away, but come on, they are going to find out anyway sooner or later and lose interest then, so what's the point?
Also, what happened to proudly mentioning your software is open source and all the "fork me on GitHub" ribbons/banners/whatever? They seem a bit shy on that too - which is all the more bizarre because most of the links in the top navigation actually go to GitHub, but none of them are labeled "source code".
Maybe not on the landing page, but there's a large button saying "Learn More about the Kakoune philosophy" that leads to this page [1] that mentions vim 5 times and vi 11 times, including:
"It first started as a reimplementation of Vim"
"A design goal of Kakoune is to beat vim at its own game, while providing a cleaner editing model"
"Up to now, I have used vi as an example for modal text editor, mostly because I expect most programmers have at least heard of it. However, I don’t believe vi and clones are the best modal text editor out there."
AFAIK the creator got the inspiration from Vim, but I think the other statements about github, not mentioning vim, etc. Are just products of your imagination
That the landing page doesn't mention vi/vim or open source is definitely a fact. Of course the reason for not mentioning vim was a product of my imagination, but actually I just wanted to say that I think it's odd for them to avoid stating the almost-obvious...
I feel it's in the nature of communication to avoid stating the obvious and only becomes problematic when what's obvious to the sender is not to the receiver.
Paradoxically while too much obviousness makes a statement banal, being the first to explicitly state what's obvious to everyone is extremely insightful... :)
Both the "Learn more about the Kakoune philosophy" and git repo prominently state it's inspired by vim. Why are you thinking they're hiding it just because it's not on the landing page?
Also, what happened to proudly mentioning your software is open source and all the "fork me on GitHub" ribbons/banners/whatever? They seem a bit shy on that too - which is all the more bizarre because most of the links in the top navigation actually go to GitHub, but none of them are labeled "source code".