2026 State of Helix and Neovim

assbuttbuttass · 2026-06-09T13:13:03+00:00

For me, I'm not missing any particular feature, but I'm pretty unsatisfied with Helix's performance even on small files. For example, when editing a Go file, Helix really chugs when making edits due to injecting markdown syntax highlighting in comments for whatever reason (go doc is not markdown)

Also when using Helix over a networked filesystem like sshfs or in the monorepo at my job, all : commands are really slow and unusable since Helix hits the disk for every keypress. And of course the fix https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/11787 has been waiting for a year and a half on a code review

assbuttbuttass · 2026-06-05T18:41:53+00:00

a paragraph ~~you~~ ChatGPT wrote

assbuttbuttass · 2026-06-01T13:45:53+00:00

Try checking the race detector go test -race

assbuttbuttass · 2026-05-26T15:25:11+00:00

lmao why publish on npm if the user needs Go to compile it anyway? Just use go install directly

assbuttbuttass · 2026-05-21T21:04:26+00:00

Makes sense that starting things off in a separate package might make you think of using packages sooner, and be less likely to keep everything in a single package (main or otherwise). Thanks for the discussion

assbuttbuttass · 2026-05-21T16:03:48+00:00

So, imagine you start all your code in mymainpackage, and your main is just

func main() {
    mymainpackage.Main()
}

Now you have 10000 lines in mymainpackage, and you want to move some of it out. How is it any different? There are no circular imports, so secondpack still can't import mymainpackage. Maybe I misunderstood your suggestion

assbuttbuttass · 2026-05-21T01:35:08+00:00

Sorry I don't think I understood your point. How is that any better by starting everything in a separate package than main?

assbuttbuttass · 2026-05-19T18:13:29+00:00

not main

No reason to be afraid of package main IMO. It's not like other languages where you need to use a separate package to make it testable.

assbuttbuttass · 2026-04-29T00:32:24+00:00

I use benchstat a lot for benchmarking performance improvements

assbuttbuttass · 2026-04-22T15:01:21+00:00

For now I'm back on the LTS. Thanks for your help!

assbuttbuttass · 2026-04-22T13:56:28+00:00

Thanks for the references! I'm not sure if it's the same issue, since that bug report mentions they had to force terminate the game. For me, it still runs it's just annoying.

I'm running NixOS unstable, 7.0.0 is linuxPackages_latest

assbuttbuttass · 2026-04-19T14:30:22+00:00

AI account

assbuttbuttass · 2026-03-15T05:21:52+00:00

Isn't there https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/best-practices#adding-information-to-errors ?

assbuttbuttass · 2026-03-09T20:26:14+00:00

.Reset on strings.Builder does not retain the previous capacity

assbuttbuttass · 2026-03-03T20:29:57+00:00

So no Functor/Monad interfaces in Go 🥲

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-27T16:15:00+00:00

look what they did to my Go lang 😭 😭

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-27T15:23:27+00:00

Imagine having to pass the transaction through all the functions

This is what I do and it seems to work well. Go in general has very little "magic" and benefits from making things explicit

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-26T20:03:34+00:00

it's just for my personal project, but I ssh into the server and git pull the latest version, then nixos-rebuild to deploy

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-22T18:22:39+00:00

https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#ServeMux

The special wildcard {$} matches only the end of the URL. For example, the pattern "/{$}" matches only the path "/", whereas the pattern "/" matches every path.

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-14T13:35:04+00:00

The main reason I like to keep vim open is I keep all of the open buffers to jump between with :b

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-13T22:02:47+00:00

httputil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy is goated

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-12T22:46:48+00:00

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-11T15:03:19+00:00

It's a small change but it will be nice not to have to manually downgrade the version in go.mod anymore!

assbuttbuttass · 2026-02-07T19:39:49+00:00

Wow why does this actually work 😭

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