Helix: A Post-Modern Modal Text Editor - Features and Development Plans
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Reliable enough to start your morning with. Toast it again tomorrow.
Summary
Helix is described as a 'post-modern' modal text editor, presented as a joke about being the successor to Neovim (which is the modern Vim). The article addresses common questions about the editor, confirming it's good, mentioning plans for a WebGPU-based GUI frontend, and noting that while there's currently no plugin system, one is intended for the future.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledA post-modern text editor.
If Neovim is the modern Vim, then Helix is post-modern.
Yes. (in response to 'Is it any good?')
We'd like to prototype a WebGPU-based alternative frontend.
While there is currently no plugin system available, we do intend to eventually have one.
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