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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by dahfizz on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:41AM (#33151279)
This may be a factor for brand new devs, but everyone who uses vim already has it setup, by definition.

One time setup cost is a small factor in choosing an editor. Stability and ubiquity are more important IMO.

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by callahad on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:05AM (#33152267)
Any sufficiently complex "one-time setup cost" quickly becomes an ongoing maintenance quagmire. And I say that as a full-time neovim user for the past seven years.

Neovim is still my favorite vi, but I think I erred when I started bolting on so many plugins and supporting processes... when I want a lightweight IDE, I'll use VS Code.

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by aussiesnack on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:11PM (#33155895)
> One time setup cost is a small factor in choosing an editor.

Perhaps for you, but empirically for devs as a population, this is very clearly false. A large part of the reason for VSCode's near-takeover for new devs in the last few years is its frictionless setup for almost everything.

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