Thanks for the reply. I didn't know that their was a nim.kak. Interesting story. I don't know how I would classify myself. I am a long time Smalltalker. I have struggled entering the world of editors and have kind of simply settled for a reasonable IDE/Editor rather than committing the time to learning Vim or Emacs. So currently that is Atom. I am not a fan of bloat of modern apps. I am also doing more server side apps. I would like a ssh, terminal friendly editor. Vim is definitely one. It seemed that Kakoune would be somewhat an evolution of that.
If I were to learn Vim first, am I going to have to unlearn or relearn much should I at a later date move to Kakoune? Thanks for the advice.