Last year, because of a special coding environment, I stated to use helix to replace vs code to reduce the times I switch between mouse and keyboard and to make my system faster
But then I found some crates uses some magic and that didn't work very well on helix , such as slint and dioxus, which cost me a lot of time to explore a comfortable way to develop
Perhaps a poll would give you a useful overview concerning your question about who uses Helix and who doesn't?
I get the feeling your thread title is not really the question you want answered. Even if I use helix for some things, if I were doing anything with slint I'd probably use VS Code at least to get started. Productivity tools do not need monogamous commitments.
I use Neovim for development everything including Rust projects. I have no idea about Helix, basically because this IDE doesn't have Linux Support
Of course it has !
According to the 2023 Rust Annual Survey, the preference rate for Helix is around 8.9%, double the reported rate for 2022.
Having tried Helix out of curiosity last year, I loved the default context menu for commands that appears when you press a key. This leads to an intuitive exploration process, and hastens memorization, so the painful process of relearning my familiar workflow is... less painful.
For me, Helix offers a comparable or superior development experience in many ways. The main nit I have to pick is not even Helix's fault, really. As a Neovim user, I have become spoiled by the wide array of 3rd-party plugins available, and the ecosystem around Helix is newer and smaller. These are teething issues. Given the growing interest in Helix, as well as the swelling numbers of total users, I expect this IDE is heading in an exciting direction.
Ooh,I see, I was confused about Helix, thinking it was Zed, which I believe is another text editor written in Rust, and now they are working to support Linux.
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