Helix will get plugin support sometime, it's basically a matter of when not if. Also; the scripting languages seems to become an S-Expression like lisp dialect.

I would say that different technologies serve a different purpose.

So, saying, that e.g., Zig is generally better or worse than Rust doesn't make any sense to me, as both Languages have a different purpose.

I would much rather use Rust to write a Webserver (in production) than in Zig, simply because Rust serves this purpose better than Zig does. And i personally can consider Zig to be my favourite Language.

I would also never (at least right now) write Website frontends in either Zig or Rust, i think JavaScript in this case, is the obvious choice, because it has been developed (over years) for this (and unfortunately other) use case(s).

I would love to see some examples, as i am not entirely sure what's so of-putting by it. My personal subjective opinion is, that yes, the syntax can in some cases look a bit off-putting (like the || capture) but overall, i don't think it is really ugly.

This pun made me happy and sad at the same time.

I am basically a long-time lurker, and recently decided to make an account here.

Basically, for me, i just wanted to have the ability to kind of 'boost' posts i thought were interesting / informative and i want those posts to be seen by more people.

My 2 cents to this as a helix user.

1. it's just nice to see your selection before u do any action.

2. There's not benefit to the new model, either you like it more or like it less, why does everything have to give a benefit? Maybe it's just about the preference.

3. Helix requires less than 50 Lines of TOML to configure, to me this is well worth it, as with neovim, i easily needed like ... 300 Lines of Lua code? Something like this.

If i am not mistaken, that's one of the larger selling points in Favour of Zig, isn't it?

I am pretty sure the C/C++ capabilities will stay in the Zig toolchain for a very long time :)

tbh, i don't even think that promotion a product based on their language is a selling point (unless it's a lib of course!)

But this whole `built with X` is in my opinion just some 'i try to appear cool by using x language' and i don't really like it.

Don't get me wrong, i absolutely love rust, zig and go, but i believe, that you shouldn't pick a technology based on such subjective matter. A language is just a tool to solve problems, and you don't really want to screw in a screw with a hammer, do you?