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It's called open source - I'm confident in 30 years time there will still be a vim port to whatever OS is in vogue.

Port is the operative word there.

Proprietary binaries may work but there's no guarantee depending upon how the software was written.

End of the day I don't care if it's same binary or not, i just want my apps and tooling to work the way they have always worked.