there's already [powerline](https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline), why yet another statusline?
* it's standard vimscript, no python needed
* it's small. i want the entire plugin to be less than 200 lines as a rule
* gets you 90% of the way there: in addition to all the standard goodies, supports [fugitve](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive) and [syntastic](https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic)