Well, with Neovim, we'll have a legit fully-featured plugin for any and all IDEs that do plugins. I sincerely can't wait to have Neovim in IntelliJ/RubyMine/CursiveClojure.
It will, definitely. I mean, given the amount of work that has been put in and the amount of people that are waiting for the first release, it would be a huge mistake to discontinue it. To make vim a "modern" editor, there are a LOT of things that need to change, and neovim has got most, if not all, right.
It may be still too early to tell but it seems there is enough interest to keep it alive. It's been almost a year since the project started and it has over 120 contributors, over 2500 commits and doesn't seem very top loaded on the project owner (who is responsible for only 18% of the commits).
Which was one of the core goals. Spread the load, avoid single points of failure, create a vibrant community of contributors, allow people in.
I wasn't trying to be negative. There have been a lot of editor projects come and go is all. I like the idea of neovim. I just with Bram was more flexible so that neovim wasn't necessary.