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title:  "About"
description: "SpaceVim is a communicate driven vim distribution that supports vim and neovim"
---

## 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 defferent 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

- Current maintainer: [Wang Shidong](https://github.com/wsdjeg)
- [![GitHub contributors](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/SpaceVim/SpaceVim.svg)](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/graphs/contributors)
- [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