Trying new modal editors to see if anything out there has come close to dethroning the king (vim of course). Helix and Zed were highly recommended options and of the two Helix seems like it could be a contender but Zed? There is no way to close the settings window in Linux and the backspace key doesn't work. Bugs like this are oddly satisfying to find but leads me to believe that these editors aren't being used in real world context or programming environments where building requires the editor getting out of your way. The marketing seems exciting but when put to actual practice you're trapped in the editor. I'm not sure if it's because of the collaboration features or just the fact that writing an editor for most environments is extremely difficult. Could be i'm just so used to vim but :wq has never failed in my history of using it.
The approach seems to be leaving behind legacy and using gpu's for speed which is admirable but I think that's also part of the problem. The reason vim is ubiquitous is because we can type 'vi' on almost any command line, on any platform in any decade and it'll load up. Zed is more of an IDE than an editor and this is where programming style and ideology comes into play. It's an interesting conundrum. What editor you use has in a way always determined what programs you write... Guess it makes sense in that context. #zed #rust #helix #vim #ide
