Olympia Mike has a new text editor.

I've recently been having issues with VSCode on NixOS breaking after some updates.  The fix was to blow away my local .config settings for it, and set it all back up.  Needless to say, this was getting annoying.  I've also long been curious about VSCode alternatives, as it always make me uncomfortable to overly rely on one tool.

After doing some playing around, I landed on, and feel in love with the Helix editor.  It's a terminal editor like Vim, but is way more full featured out of the box, with sane defaults, LSP and Treesitter support.  The editor has lots of hints to help you learn as you go, and it's FAST and build on Rust (queue the music)

It's officially been a month and I haven't opened up VSCode once, and fully on Helix.  I'd love to share this for anyone who wants to get away from VSCode, but can't stomach Vim.

It also made me wonder.  If VSCode were to go away tomorrow, what editor would you use?  I don't want this to devolve into editor wars, but curious where you'd land.

Thanks for the great show as always!