Helix

“if features like that didn’t materialize yet, that sounds like sufficient impetus for a fork to me.”

“We've built version 1 of Helix, connecting accounting workflows, AI assistance, source evidence and review controls.”

“it does a drastic shift to actions that were indeed engineered and thought-through intentionally”

“The simpler and less contentious way to adopt innovations is to make a new tool with the innovation.”

“it shows you the list of possible next keypresses every time you press the first key in a combo”

“Helix is fantastic OOTB and I have considerable muscle memory in it, but the pace of development is glacial”

“I've been using it daily for over a year, and there already are several dozen reasonably sophisticated plugins available.”

“i feel its half baked without a plugin system and tons of basic functionality missing.”

“Helix just works out of the box pretty much, no need for a Doom Helix or Oh-my-Helix”

“For example, I regularly pipe the result of ls, grep or fd into Helix then use multicursor editing to set up a script.”

“helix for example has very good discoverability by presenting commands on the screen”

“I love Helix and have been looking for a way to have some extra note taking features without loosing my favourite editor.”

“Love the default motions so much more, and having multi-cursor adds so much to the day to day experience.”

“I generally feel a lot more productive (especially in Nix/Go) with added responsiveness”

“I love the batteries included in Helix. Just the right amount that I don't need much else.”

“Incredibly snappy and minimalistic but still having every feature a serious IDE needs, out of the box.”

“I tried it out for a few days, and I cannot justify spending time on this when I am already very productive with vim/VSCodeVim.”

“Helix or even Ki would not be needed if Neovim allowed to completely replace the vim part of it with plugins”

“found the combo of hx for quick edits/terminal work and Zed with hx bindings for everything else great”

“Why do we need to have 40MB of Verilog grammars on disk when 99% of people don't use them?”

“My default editor for the past couple years. Love the simplicity, speed, and the fact I can navigate comfortably with just the keyboard.”

“With time I actually came to get accustomed to it and to enjoy my files not reloading automatically with Claude Code changes.”

“the default keybinds and the way that selecting and editing text work just works too well in my brain”

“the multi-cursor+selection approach only really helps when you can see everything you're about to change on the screen”

“Even a release build is several hundred megabytes in size, which I find pretty wasteful.”

“it introduces subtle (and meaningful - I have to admit) variations, which unfortunately wreaks havoc with my muscle memory”

“is still no closer to getting to be up to par with what I get with helix out of the box”

“It is my default editor, never really got the hang of Vim and I quite like Helix's Selection -> Action system.”

“Helix gets enough right out of the box I find myself reaching for it far more than I ever did with vi or Emacs”

“supports most modern language out the box. That's amazing and wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago.”

“I like how helix is more discoverable (pop up context menu), has sane/great defaults and out of the box experience”

“They decided on an obscure Lisp flavor as the language (instead of WASM), so I don't hold my breath for a powerful plugin system”

“in reality many high quality contributions are rejected, so all you're left with is "opinionated"”

“I prefer this model of strict high quality governance and a "no" as default to keep their vision clear.”

“The helix maintainers have a track record of giving very slow "no"s and wasting contributor time.”

“Many of the key-bindings display an unobtrusive list of follow-up actions that close without any lag”

“The maintainers don't seem to have any aptitude for coordinating engineering effort.”

“They encourage contributors to fix various odds and ends, until the PR has been nit picked to death, and then finally the concept is rejected.”

“I've watched the maintainers waste dozens of hours of contributors' time, and leave the project with no improvement afterwards.”

“Useful without any configuration, and very easy to get a productive environment.”