Post #2737284
2026-05-21 11:26 UTC
It's just way easier to get helix to a usable state for the languages I write in than it is with vim. I don't have to go plugin hunting or vetting random github repos; all the support mostly comes shipped with the editor. Throw some lines in TOML file and you're good, vs downloading a plugin manager, downloading plugins, configuring those plugins and hoping you got everything right and the plugin repo's README isn't 10 years out of date.
vim feels like a downgrade.
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@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-05-21 15:01
The process you described is definitely what I went though with vim and neovim. After about a decade of vim I still couldn’t get proper language support and an IDE like experience going. When language servers and the debugging protocol came along, it was worse to find the right plugin and configure that correctly. Helix simplified my decade long struggle with vim in a single weekend. It still isn’t a TUI IDE but it’s such an upgrade, I’ll take it.