| ▲ | hmokiguess 5 hours ago |
| This looks nice, though I already use and like Helix. What is the motivation behind the fork? |
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| ▲ | n42 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I found this post on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/HelixEditor/comments/1wpt22a/mitos_... |
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| ▲ | OlivOnTech 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Helix has not seen any release in a while and PRs stack. |
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| ▲ | hmokiguess 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh interesting, I went to look more after you said that and noticed the lack of activity indeed, there's even a discussion about it: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/16261 That said, fwiw, I haven't felt the need for anything on it and it feels "complete" to me as far as my daily use goes Maintaining OSS is tough, do you know what the community has been wanting lately that it lacks? Maybe I'm an outlier user or I don't know what I don't know | | |
| ▲ | setopt 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don’t use Helix myself, but I’ve tried it before. I believe I’ve heard many users requesting a plug-in system (there were some plans for Scheme?), and that the devs themselves considered many features as more appropriate for plugins than first-party support (code folding and non-LSP snippets, if I recall correctly?). I don’t know how Helix developed the last couple of years, but if features like that didn’t materialize yet, that sounds like sufficient impetus for a fork to me. |
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| ▲ | notnmeyer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | fwiw it’s incredibly easy to build from master |
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| ▲ | benrutter 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah I wondered this too! The website explains the features, but from what I can tell it's just the feature set of Helix. I'm sure there's a plan behind what the forker wants to do with the project, would be awesome if the website explained! |
