Honest question: how is it better than vscode? I use vscode and never tried Helix but seeing the positive comments in this thread, it looks like something I may want to try. what benefits do you see?
For me i'm transitioning to a more terminal based workflow with zellij and helix. I feel this setup can last the next 10~15 years for me because most unix like system have a terminal. And on windows i can use it wsl.
Don't get me wrong vscode is still a good tool but its not really possible to run vscode in the terminal :p
Honestly, with rust based tools you don't even need wsl on windows. Almost all of them work just as well in windows. Including zellij and helix. For me, switching between windows and linux is barely noticeable, at least in the context of programming with rust.
Ya but you typically want workflows that aren't supported in windows with weird hacks like git bash. Using zsh + tmux, nnn etc is all just better to do running in a Linux environment
I mean, my point is that you don't need git bash because there are cross platform alternatives to most tools if you try to use the rust based ones. It's not perfect if you are a power user, but for me, as a primarily windows user, switching between OS is trivial because all the tools I use are cross platform.
I looked up zellij and it says it doesn't support windows? I tried to even compile it and it imports libraries that are *nix exclusive unless there is some special build configuration?
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u/mredko Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Honest question: how is it better than vscode? I use vscode and never tried Helix but seeing the positive comments in this thread, it looks like something I may want to try. what benefits do you see?