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I didn't think Helix supported plugins, and I don't see any mention of it in the documentation. What language does it use?

(Edit: I see a bit of Scheme in the GitHub repo, but to call them "plugins" are a bit of a stretch; it seems limited to mostly-declarative syntax highlighting stuff.)

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It doesn't yet have a plugin system but they're thinking of adding one for the Steel programming language (a lisp).

https://github.com/mattwparas/steel

Yes, and from what I understand there was plenty of discussion and they carefully analyzed different options. The discussion seems to be is closed now.

I respect that, you cannot ponder these things forever and sometimes any decision is better than none. It's just that, unfortunately, my priorities are different from those of the Helix devs in that respect.

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