I actually dread the day Helix eventually gets the WebAssembly plugins system that's been floated around. The current Helix culture of "you get a Kakoune-like editor that can do three categories of "bonus" things, and NOTHING ELSE" encourages a more manageable pace of development (and maybe more importantly: slower updates for those of us exhausted of software churn breaking our stacks constantly), and discourages feature creep/bloat. I love where Helix is at currently. After some tinkering and adjusting a few keybinds, and after a few releases for them to fix various bugs I'd been dealing with, it's quickly become my new favorite editor, and has nearly fully replaced NeoVim. Hats off to Helix.
I couldn't agree more with this! I actively don't want plugins for Helix either - as tempting as it sounds. Nvim is already a create plugin based modal editor with a rich ecosystem, so Helix's no-config philosophy is kinda it's whole selling point.
