zed-fonts VS helix

I like the build of Iosevka that the Zed editor people made, called Zed Mono. It's hosted on github [0] but there are no screenshots. You can see kind of how it looks in the screenshots of their editor on their website though [1]

0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/releases

1: https://zed.dev/

did https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/releases/tag/1.2... not work for you?

In case anyone else stumbles across this, they created a custom build of Iosevka called Zed Mono. I also needed to create a custom build to support ligatures (see https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/issues/2)

I know that there's no such thing as a unique name, but the fact that https://helix-editor.com/ is a living project, first released in May 2021, might mean that using "Helix" for this project, first released in November 2024, isn't the best choice of name. Or at least it might be worth a disclaimer in the readme!

Helix was great until I discovered something that was a dealbreaker for me. They treat newline character as a normal character which is just very very non intuitive. I just wish there was option for behavior same as vim does. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2956

The bikeshedding has long past. They've been working on the implementation now for some time.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

Lots of vim/emacs mentions so I feel obliged to mention Helix (https://helix-editor.com/). Used neovim for _years_, tried Helix for a few weeks and never looked back

I’m not sure. Command based editing opens more doors than just optimizing keystrokes. There are edits I somewhat regularly do with Vim macros that save me minutes of typing and cognitive burden of examining refactor locations. It’s probably not going to be make or break, but I do think it’s significant in a p > 0.05 sense.

I imagine Vim is only just a local optima too. There are newer editors [0] that are more AST aware that I haven’t been able to fairly evaluate yet (not in the boring corp approved software list).

[0]: https://helix-editor.com/

Likely soon: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675#issuecomment...

My initial point was just that it's kind of nice to have something that's usable from the get-go. I don't miss my giant vim config one bit.

If you're using the Helix Editor — the lightning-fast, modal, and fully-native code editor — you probably already appreciate its clean interface and modern features. But let’s be honest: theming matters.

Over the past 5 years, I have worked primarily with Rust, Golang, Python and Typescript. I have built and maintained various services and tools, ranging from internal utilities to services used by millions of users. For most of my career I have worked remotely, collaborating across various timezones. I like to work in environments with good engineering culture.

As a fellow hn reader you might be particularly interested in

- Lox Language Interpreters: https://github.com/nkitsaini/lox

- Contribution to uv: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/11738

- Contribution to Helix Editor: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/9660

- Solutions to protohackers: https://github.com/nkitsaini/protohackers_impl

You can find more details in the resume at https://nkit.dev/resume.pdf

Nearly all my developer tools are open-source projects written in Rust (Nushell, Helix, WezTerm, and more).