Comment by e12e

I used vim for about twenty years, and I'm mostly happy having moved from neovim to helix.

The main thing I miss in helix is solid debugging support and slime style repl support - but I never had that working in vim.

The other thing I'm missing in ruby is "go-to definition" automatically working with dependencies, allowing to go to the source code by "opening" gems - tpope has/had some amazing stuff for ruby development with vim.

That said - I like how helix is more discoverable (pop up context menu), has sane/great defaults and out of the box experience - and I like the select-apply or subject-verb and multi cursor workflow better than vim verb-subject flow.

I recommend trying to go through the tutorial and see if fits.

I'm hoping plugin support will open the door to some improved go-to-definiton support - I'd love to be able to go "up" to edit/view dependencies be that libc source code, java, rust crates etc.