I was drawn to helix specifically because it is excellent without the need for plugins.

LSP and tree-sitter grammars carry so many of the features I had to add to vim and emacs—over years of configuring—that I feel like I’m not missing anything important; despite having an emacs config large enough to justify its own repo outside all my other dotfiles.

My whole helix config is telling helix what theme I want and the path to my nix formatter, and it feels nice.