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A. Sure, but it isn't sufficiently beneficial for the cost. B. WebAssembly is immature for developing a plugin system because of the lack of a sufficient ABI: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model C. There aren't any other languages that meet the criteria. Lua was a no-go from the start. The maintainers did not like the language, and it necessitated adding more C code to Helix which could complicate building even further. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...

Helix Editor plans to use Steel as a plugin language [0]. [0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

You might also want to watch on helix, if PR 8675 is merged, then scheme will be the extension langauge, then we get the best of both world. Modal editing and scheme =) PR 8675: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

Are you talking about this? Interesting read and caused by one of the unsafe+transmute the sibling comment is talking about. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7227

See https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1970 but yeah, other editors do the same thing as Helix here.

There is a tasty looking proposal for a debugger overhaul https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/5950.

I also use Helix full time, I really like it, especially the multi cursor features. I was a neovim user before, but I did not enjoy configuring my editor all the time. I like Helix config defaults, LSP works out of the box, the commands are a bit longer to type, but more logical. I cannot work without a file tree, I settled with the tree explorer fork[1] and I'm happy with it. [1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5768

Release size is ridiculous, and they refuse to do anything about it https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/6187

I still miss a file explorer like telescope in the nvim world. I was a bit sad to hear that is now blocked by plugins being added: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5768#issuecomment...

It’s not quite that simple, but folks are working on it. https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/issues/425#issuecomment-1... https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/211#issuecomment-...

I'd probably use Helix if it had 1:1 Kakoune keybindings. Or even Vim bindings. Vim bindings are not the most consistent, but they are ubiquitous. Every program that offers Vim mode has very similar keymap. If modal text editor deviates from them, it better be for good reason. Kakoune bindings are very different from Vim, but they are provably and objectively [1] better, so that's fine. They are also more consistent and there is a clear idea behind the whole design. It's written down in documentation. You might prefer Vim or Emacs, but at least you can see that changes from well known Vim scheme are not made at whim. Helix keymap feels like it was improvised without any thought behind it. „Let's take Kakoune binds and add back visual mode cuz I feel like it.” Currently, they are designed by committee in this GitHub issue[2]. I don't see a

I've been test driving the Helix editor (mostly because of its out-of-the-box support for a wide range of LSP servers), and it adopts the kakoune style of keybindings. Like you, my muscle memory is very strongly in the Vim camp, and is hard to change :) https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

Seems like they created it for the helix editor https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7814

this is basically why I moved to https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/ for most things. neovim setup is a nightmare these days. 0.5 introducing Lua was both great (yay! vimscript sucks!) and horrible (oh no, everyone took this power and made a full operating system worth of complex stuff out of it that rarely fits together cohesively, and it all updates so frequently now that I can't keep up) I don't actually think it's Lua's fault. And I don't necessarily want to jump and say "the improved accessibility of this thing turned it into an unusable circus", because that's both unnecessarily sassy and also likely prescribing blame in some places it doesn't fully belong. But there's something that tidally changed in that time, and especially in the past 2-3 years, my vim setup became a thing I dreaded updating (because it would 100% guaranteed