This could be a great text-mode IDE with the addition of some LSP, tree-sitter and DAP support. There is already an open issue about possibly adding support for tree-sitter grammars for fast syntax highlighting, but they do mention that this requires some sort of optional plugin system to avoid bloating up the codebase severely (for example, the tree-sitter grammars within the Helix editor take up hundreds of megabytes, which is obviously unacceptable here).