Evil-helix: bringing the Helix editor to the evil side

> Avoid Scheme/Lisp > > Scheme/Lisp should not be forced onto the user. It's error-prone and harder to read by humans, compared to Rust/TOML/Lua/...

I mean, any single language that's "blessed" for a plugin system will be "forced on the user," whether it's Lisp or Scheme or something else. So why specifically shouldn't Lisp be used that way? This phraseology betrays a bizarre, deeply unfair and wrong-headed double standard that views Lisp or Scheme as somehow inherently worse or more coercive or something to select as the plugin language.

> If upstream Helix moves to a Scheme-based configuration, this project will seek to keep a user-friendly alternative.

And sure enough, their second paragraph reveals this nonsensical view.

How in the world is Scheme or Lisp harder to read than Rust, a language that has almost as many complaints about its syntax as Lisp does and is much lower level and more verbose / complex?

How is Lua less error prone than Scheme or Lisp when Lua has all kinds of gotches around tables and arrays and is weakly typed?

And TOML is totally not sufficient as a plugin or extension language, and it's bizarre that they included it next to Rust and Lua. How in the world is it a fair comparison here?

Some people seem to have this weird, irrational hatred for Lisps. Just use proper paren completion like 99% of editors have and you'll be fine. And there are a lot of upsides, too.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about that from Vim users, but still.