What does HackerNews think of helix?

I don't actually think it's Lua's fault. And I don't necessarily want to jump and say "the improved accessibility of this thing turned it into an unusable circus", because that's both unnecessarily sassy and also likely prescribing blame in some places it doesn't fully belong. But there's something that tidally changed in that time, and especially in the past 2-3 years, my vim setup became a thing I dreaded updating (because it would 100% guaranteed, every time, break something about my workflow)

I've not had problems with latency in fish, but the promise of rust is that there is so little latency that it heralds a close to the metal feeling I've not seen in decades.

I think that feeling is visceral and laudable, regardless of the actual runtime profile. It's under-appreciated in the design community. IPC latency is as big a problem in operating systems and programming languages as RPC latency is in cloud systems.

I have no experience with rust, but I do depend on helix daily:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

and helix is rust.

I think this kind of open source experiment is exactly what we should be encouraging because it's forward-looking and straightforward to test.

I think the fish community could decide easily by A-B testing the Rust and C++ builds with real users and see how they compare in terms of reliability, performance, regressions, time-to-fix, and so on, assuming the team has the bandwidth to absorb the sideways nature of the work without derailing fish.

To me, rust is more than trendy and I can remember the first time I touched Walter Bright's work decades ago, so I'm open-minded about D too. A simple KLOC or cyclomatic complexity as a proxy to abstraction would be an interesting lens.

it is very promising https://helix-editor.com/ https://github.com/helix-editor/helix