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haxfn··on Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST
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haxfn··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
Vim is like C, Helix is like C++ and Ki Editor is like Rust.

"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."

Helix carries a baggage of ideas from Vim. It does not have consistent and transferable keybinds. It does not have composition of ideas:

You can move to the next line in the buffer editor with `k` but to move down to the next line in the file explorer you have to do `ctrl+n`?

Vim is like C, Helix is like C++ and Ki Editor is like Rust.