• Fantastic! I used EMACS for 3 years, vi(m) for 22, Kakoune for 2, and Helix for the past 3, and Helix is by far the best. I think it benefits from having arrived just in time for TreeSitter and LSP to be mature, and learned a lot from vim and Kakoune.

    I like that it’s modal, consistent, and fast.

    Some particularly exciting changes in this release:

    • DAP integration
    • New, more capable, file explorer (the old file explorer is pretty basic)
    • command-mode expansions (%{language}, and %sh{...})!
    • purported improvement in command expansion (hopefully pipe and exec expansions are better)

    Glad to see it!