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title:  "About"
description: "SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution with layer feature, all contributors make SpaceVim what it is."
---

# About

## Version

[SpaceVim](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim) is a community-driven vim distribution that supports vim and Neovim.  SpaceVim manages collections of plugins in layers.  Layers make it easy for you, the user, to enable a new language or feature by grouping all the related plugins together. It got inspired by spacemacs. 

## Goals

- Provide a consistent user experience across platforms.
- Provide better default layer for different languages.

## Principles

- Do not regress from origin
- Decide outcomes by weighing cost and benefit
- prefer usability over tradition if the benefits are overwhelming
- Give usability a chance

## Credits & Thanks

This project exists thanks to all the people who have contributed to SpaceVim:

<a href="https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/graphs/contributors"><img src="https://opencollective.com/spacevim/contributors.svg?width=890&button=false" /></a>

- [@Gabirel](https://github.com/Gabirel) and his [Hack-SpaceVim](https://github.com/Gabirel/Hack-SpaceVim)
- [@everettjf](https://github.com/everettjf) and his [SpaceVimTutorial](https://everettjf.gitbooks.io/spacevimtutorial/content/)
- [vimdoc](https://github.com/google/vimdoc) generate doc file for SpaceVim
- [Rafael Bodill](https://github.com/rafi) and his vim-config
- [Bailey Ling](https://github.com/bling) and his dotvim
- authors of all the plugins used in SpaceVim.