Built in Rust, for the terminal No Electron. No VimScript. No JavaScript. Use it over ssh, tmux, or a plain terminal. Your laptop battery life will thank you.
Frequent questions
Post-modern?!
It's a joke. If Neovim is the modern Vim, then Helix is post-modern.
Is it any good?
Are there plans for a GUI frontend?
Eventually, yes! We'd like to prototype a WebGPU-based alternative frontend. See the discussion on GitHub.
What about plugins?
While there is currently no plugin system available, we do intend to eventually have one. But this will take some time (more discussion here).
How does it differ from Kakoune?
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