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848 | 30,031 | |
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9.0 | 9.9 | |
7 days ago | 4 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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steel
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Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights
I absolutely don't mind the plugin system being a Scheme. It's a plugin for a text editor, and Steel(https://github.com/mattwparas/steel) seems to be a lot less of a maintenance burden than WASM plugins(besides that I find the WASM tooling to be extremely complex).
But besides all that, Helix learned be that I don't need fancy plugins or endless finicking with config files and toolchains. Using a combination of other tools, like yazi and lazygit, helps me not only inside my editor but outside of it as well. And Kakoune does this even better. In that regard it has been a real eye-opener and refreshing. The downside is, it's hard to go back to other editors!
- Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect
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Steel – An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust
Basically the differences are in the concepts you'll use to write code. Lisps themselves are very different from each other, but just like the languages you're used to, lisps have standard libraries that can be called, and those building blocks can be used to build applications or whatever else. In this case specifically, Steel provides the facility to call Rust functions within a Steel program: https://github.com/mattwparas/steel.
So, although I haven't used Steel, it looks like the advantage you'd get from using it is the opportunity to take advantage of features it provides like transducers and contracts, which are feature common to other Lisps as well.
So, just like choosing any other language, it boils down to a series of tradeoffs.
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What’s everyone working on this week (19/2023)?
I've been adding my language steel as the plugin language for helix. There is a lot of discussion around what the plugin system will look like for helix and I figured I'd give it a shot since steel was designed originally for embedding. So far its working pretty well, it turns helix into emacs (without the nearly 50 years of development, so not quite as good). I'm reasonably confident the changes won't be accepted upstream (my language is a scheme but I am the only developer at the moment), but even if not it is a really fun experiment. Hoping that it can be used as a basis for whatever plugin system they eventually land on. An example of what configuration would look like:
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What’s everyone working on this week (7/2023)?
Working on automatic doc generation for steel. I've been procrastinating building this out for a while - some of the easy cases are really easy, while the hard cases are definitely not easy.
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What's everyone working on this week (6/2023)?
I'm working on steel, an embedded scheme like programming language. I have lofty goals of eventually adding a JIT and making it viable as a standalone language, but for now its just about as fast as python, and makes for fairly pleasant embedded scripting. Recently added modules and dylibs, and am working on getting documentation into a better place so that adding more libraries becomes easier. I've written a functioning slack bot in it, which is pretty fun, eventually want to make a discord bot as well out of it just to stress test it a bit
- Guile Steel: a proposal for a systems Lisp
helix
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Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction
Nice post. Obligatory Helix plug: For anyone interested in taking this further, there are whole editors designed around multi-cursor editing.
https://helix-editor.com/
- Helix: Post-modern and modal text editor
- Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
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:syntax off (2016)
I could never turn it off completely but I do sometimes use the Acme theme during the day (it's too bright in the evening), which highlights just comments, strings, and errors.
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Themes#acme
- Helix - Front-End Power
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Lapce
You can use a snippet LSP to work around Helix not having a built-in LSP manager. They're listed in https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/395
- Helix: GUI
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Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python
I'm probably not the average python programmer.
But I normally just create two terminals (I have a tiling window manager) and in one I open a python file under /tmp/ write my code and execute it in the other terminal.
I would probably use a REPL if it was integrated in my favorite editor ( https://helix-editor.com ).
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Neovide – a simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
Wow, that's been there a while: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/35c974c9c49f912...
Wonder how I missed that. I'm getting a re-education in helix today -- thank you! I'll go through `hx --tutor` again before I insert any more feet in my mouth.
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Zed is now open source
Interesting to see how they are gonna approach integrating plugins/extensions system, because this is likely gonna be one of the major factors affecting adoption and ecosystem growth.
Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1]
[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
What are some alternatives?
freya - Native GUI library for 🦀 Rust powered by 🧬 Dioxus and 🎨 Skia.
kakoune - mawww's experiment for a better code editor
schemetran
lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
astro-float - Arbitrary precision floating point numbers library
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
tesseract-wasm - JS/WebAssembly build of the Tesseract OCR engine for use in browsers and Node
micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
websurfx - :rocket: An open source alternative to searx which provides a modern-looking :sparkles:, lightning-fast :zap:, privacy respecting :disguised_face:, secure :lock: meta search engine
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
rust-s3-async-ffi - Asynchronous streaming of AWS S3 objects in C and C++ powered by rust-s3
copilot.vim - Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot