> " Due to Kakoune relying heavily on being in a Unix-like environment, no native Windows version is planned."
Deal breaker right there.
If I am going to go to the effort of learning a new editor, it better run on all reasonable platforms - like Vim does.
For example, this means that plugins trying to extend grammar analysis, will primarily try to rely on their already existing parsers and tools via the command line. This means a streamlined process to create plugins / extensions to the editor, and the function of the editor is well defined.
Plus, with the unix subsystem (minus bugs) you can still run this in Windows. That still amazes me.
With that said, Windows is working on that embedded native linux thing, so i imagine it will work there.
This smells like confirmation bias to me.
This is a straw man argument.
I already use perfectly good multi platform editors like Sublime and Vim and I have Emacs as an option, although I have not used it much. There is a significant investment in time required to use a modal editor like Vim (and apparently Kakoune) at even close to a decent level. I simply prefer to not have to change editors every time I change platform, since an editor is a tool I use a lot and I have the option to not be restricted by platform limited editors.