Helix is getting a plugin system that uses Scheme! (From an Evil-mode user perspective)
Just stumbled upon this and thought the r/emacs community would find it interesting: Helix is working on a plugin system based on Scheme!
As a dedicated Evil-mode user, I’m already a big fan of combining modal editing with the unmatched extensibility of a Lisp environment. Helix defaults to a Kakoune-style (selection-first) modal paradigm, but with this new Scheme plugin system, there is already a classic Vim emulation layer being implemented. Since that covers modal editing, maybe it's only a matter of time before someone uses Scheme to build out a full Emacs emulation layer too.
To be clear, Helix is strictly a terminal/TUI-only text editor. It obviously can't compete with the massive, unified application ecosystem of GUI Emacs (there's no native rendering for PDF view, web browsing, inline graphics, etc.).
I should note that this is all still under active development, so I'm not aware of any stable terminal plugins available to try just yet.
Here is the video covering it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDYTYktziyI
What do you all think? Anyone tempted to give it a spin once the ecosystem matures, or are we staying firmly comfy in our init.el?