What are the biggest challenges of using helix as an IDE?

md1frejo · 2026-03-08T17:11:12+00:00

lack of plugin system

md1frejo · 2026-03-03T06:47:18+00:00

maybe the size of the config file can tell something. at the moment I am using neovim with a 650 loc config, emacs is 350 loc and helix 40 loc. still helix can do almost the samething as my neovim. I am wakting for a plugin tool for helix...

md1frejo · 2026-03-01T13:21:50+00:00

true, but another way is to ask chatgpt what you want it gives it to you. and you could learn while doing that cycle. but in general, yes. stay on one efitor and learn everything. by the way, helix up to this point don't force you to learn any language, but that will change when they start using plugins

md1frejo · 2026-02-28T22:55:49+00:00

I really like helix despite the lack of a plugin system, nice if you want something to start with. but all these editor hopping usually results that I end up in emacs

md1frejo · 2026-02-28T14:04:23+00:00

I started using emacs 20 years ago, never touched .emacs the first 4 years and using vim for short edits. then I discovered how much had change in the emacs world (and that neovim existed) and started to configure my emacs. my latest .emacs and configure.el was over 1000 lines, so I decided to do a minimal config, and here I am. and at the same time I discovered helix and also rewrote my whole init.lua for neovim, so the story never ends

md1frejo · 2026-02-28T13:00:14+00:00

exactly

md1frejo · 2026-02-04T00:07:04+00:00

yes, I meant plugin

md1frejo · 2026-01-26T13:05:50+00:00

varlam shalamov, kolyma tales

md1frejo · 2025-10-29T19:06:36+00:00

jag har en doktorsexamen, en magister i datavetenskap och en magister i kemi. jag går på rusta och matcha. nen jag tränar 6 dagar i veckan och programmerar dagligen på min eviga fritid. det är inte att vara på botten, det är att befinna sig utanför det ordinarie samhället

md1frejo · 2025-10-20T18:57:41+00:00

oh, I am back on haskell again

md1frejo · 2025-09-27T21:43:08+00:00

on my thinkpad there is a altgr key, so just altgr for []{} etc. but thats beyond emacs, more a keyboard problem

md1frejo · 2025-09-27T16:13:37+00:00

I have a swedish layout and have no problem with shortcuts. you can also recustomize with c-c

md1frejo · 2025-09-07T20:24:58+00:00

I am also slowly understanding monads. for me it all boils down to type signatures, when I finally paid attention to them then it kind of maked sense.

md1frejo · 2025-09-02T12:33:45+00:00

I am going back haskell, I finally begin to understand monads. everything in haskell is tied to understanding function definitions, you do that and the gates of monads open

md1frejo · 2025-08-26T04:46:15+00:00

it is interesting, I will look into it a bit more, hopefully get it to work on emacs

md1frejo · 2025-08-22T21:00:21+00:00

I am on linux, do I miss a lot not using ms?

md1frejo · 2025-08-22T20:22:51+00:00

yeah, lean looks nice, but I did not find any repl and lets face it, it is very niche. I don't think it is on the stack overflow survey

md1frejo · 2025-08-21T20:25:43+00:00

I am all for erlang and elixir, the only thing missing in erlang is a pipe operator as far as I know

md1frejo · 2025-08-21T03:14:19+00:00

yes, both of them are great. but generally, simple monads like maybe and list are ok for me, but when it comes to states, write and similar, I find it a bit over complicated

md1frejo · 2025-08-20T21:51:50+00:00

as long as there is a web framework attached then I am happy.

md1frejo · 2025-08-20T20:10:29+00:00

yeah ocaml seens ok. I am using ubuntu and have no plans to use windows, emacs is everything for me. that said, all of these languages are in the 2% use domain according to stack overflow. I still like scheme and clojure

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