Helix and Kakoune

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• What's the difference between Helix and Kakoune?
• What's something in Helix that isn't present in Kakoune?
• Why Helix over Kakoune, or other text editors?

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https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Differences-from#kakoune

What's the difference between Helix and Kakoune?

As far as what I know,

• some keys in helix is still not very consistent yet
• from what I know among the helix developers (or I may be wrong), v is more preferable to holding shift for extend
• helix takes in some keys from vim which kakoune does not, like c-u in insert mode
• helix also have space xxxx part of which stolen from doom emacs (or maybe spacemacs)
• helix comes with lsp support and tree-sitter by default, but does not have manual syntax support for each language
• helix does not support plugin unlike kakoune yet

What's something in Helix that isn't present in Kakoune?

I believe the answers above should have a slight idea of the differences, but helix is still new, there are still changes.

Why Helix over Kakoune, or other text editors?

Not sure how to answer that, different people have different reasons, part of it for me (and a few others) it just because it is written in rust, also it quite a few stuff that I like being the defaults (don't need to manually setup lsp like kak-lsp).