Rust, Mozilla Research’s fledgling language, is an interesting choice for developing a text editor. It’s designed to be memory safe, with a Haskell-inspired type system. I’d argue that text editors really need to be reliable and safe, so I immediately…

enabler (GitHub: tomtom/enabler_vim) by Tom Link is a script for selectively loading bundles. It can be used with a plugin manager like Pathogen, allowing you to avoid slowing down Vim’s loading time.