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Shougo/neobundle.vim
Next generation Vim package manager
NeoBundle is an abandoned Vim plugin manager, last touched in 2018. The README itself tells you to use dein.vim instead. There is no reason to install this in 2026.
- Honest readme — the author explicitly redirects users to the successor project rather than pretending the project is alive
- Introduced lazy-loading and revision locking to the Vundle-era Vim ecosystem, which were genuinely useful ideas at the time
- TOML-based config support was ahead of its time for Vim plugin managers
- Abandoned since 2018 — no security patches, no Neovim compatibility work, no maintenance of any kind
- The author's own README says 'NeoBundle is not a stable plugin manager' and points to dein.vim as the replacement
- Requires vimproc for async installs, which is itself an extra native-compiled dependency that modern alternatives have eliminated
- vim-scripts.org support is baked in — that site is dead, making a chunk of the source types effectively useless