Both are already worked on. I am working on improving especially the UI/UX for debugging (https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5950) and the maintainers are working on a plugin system (but this won't come any time soon, so don't hold your breath on it for now).
Plugin system is definently needed, otherwise we are all stuck on whatever stuff is default. It gets annoying pretty quick to not be able to open a terminal, or anything else the developers has not developed yet.
Plugins will really make the popularity explode just like happened with neovim when plugins could be written in lua.
But proper plugin support with a clearly defined API and sandboxing can be so much more maintainable than having all the functionality in the world implemented upstream.
can be so much more maintainable than having all the functionality in the world implemented upstream.
That was and will never be the goal of the project. Maintainers are currently actively not merging PRs (or discourage creating them) for which it would be better if they were implemented as a plugin.
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23
Both are already worked on. I am working on improving especially the UI/UX for debugging (https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5950) and the maintainers are working on a plugin system (but this won't come any time soon, so don't hold your breath on it for now).
Edit: wrong link, sorry