{"id":2503,"date":"2025-11-15T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucaamore.com\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:06:16","slug":"reversi42-a-journey-through-hyperspace-from-vim-to-cursor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucaamore.com\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"Reversi42: A Journey Through Hyperspace – From Vim to Cursor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The story of Reversi42<\/strong> began many years ago, in an age when the word \u201csmart working\u201d<\/em> didn\u2019t even exist. Every morning, far more carefree than I am today, I would take the subway to work with a tiny 10-inch netbook. In that cramped space, I started developing the first version of my Reversi42 engine – supported by a colleague who was an expert Othello player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A time travel from Vim to Coursor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


I wanted to see how far I could go with minimal hardware and a few weeks of focus.
I coded offline, using my first version of Python and my beloved Vim<\/strong>, inside a GNU\/Linux terminal where every pixel truly mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first stable release came on March 7, 2011<\/strong>.

VISIT THE OLD ARTICLE ABOUT REVERSI42<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later, I reopened that old GitHub repository because I wanted to transform a legacy project into a modern testbed<\/strong>. I wanted to see what would happen when a prehistoric project, written in 2011 on a subway using Vim and a netbook, met the tools of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I asked myself: how much can I build today in just a few days – backed by years of experience and the best AIs around?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spoiler:<\/em> much more than I could ever have imagined and my expectations were already high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how I opened a temporal rift<\/strong>, short-circuiting past and present – between the magical Vim formulas that once carried me to nirvana and the modern oracle of Cursor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disassemble. Rebuild. Amplify.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The new Reversi42<\/strong> distills everything I\u2019ve learned over the years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n