Heres a neat easter egg: If you open enough tabs on firefox mobile the number in the tab icon changes to an infinity icon

I agree that extensibility would be nice, but it cant / shouldnt replace the actually working software with all working features. Ive never been able to get into modal editors before helix because vim / neovim (probably kakoune also) are unusable in their base form by modern standards. Any actual config / distribution needs tons of work to integrate basic usability features and fall apart in a blink (and are usually not very performant - lazy loading exists for a reason). Therefore i think its the right move to focus on implementing a fully featured editor first and then explore extensibility. That said i will also be very happy when it becomes a thing, no matter if it will be via webassembly, lisp, ect…

I’d recommend not trying to learn all the shortcuts as it’s most likely wasted effort. Most people probably dont know the entirety of available moves. Learn the basics to use the editor like, h j k l e w t f g s and start using it. Then whenever you need a ton of keystrokes to get something done, step back and see if there are moves which simplify that. Multiple selections / cursors are also an integral part of using helix so make sure to use em when applicable.

As a sidenote helix isnt very modular imo. The appeal is that compared to e.g. neovim, it is very much a Monolith with most things you need built in which simplifies usage / configuration greatly.

I’ll admit that this learning by doing way is prone to adopting half assed solutions but its the only way i know to get comfortable with something quickly

Firefox. Read the new statements on their website and the Full diff of the pull request. Not concerned at all.

Edit: pumped for ladybird, but its gonna be a few years until that is finished

I don’t know this name, I read its part of the Fediverse… Does this affect us?

Sway, will try the new cosmic once its in beta

I mean its already in the nix repos as well as homebrew which means its essentially taken care of

I heard the wayland compositor niri is inspired by paperwm, fyi. Also I doubt that cosmic will be very extendable when it releases, since most components are rewritten in rust and compiled, thus unless they specifically add some sort of scripting support extensions wont happen as easily as on gnome

Imo you immensely overestimate the capabilities of these models. What they show to the public are always hand picked situations even if they say they dont