One of my favorite people talking about my single favorite tool of the past 3+ years. Up there with (above, really) zellij and helix for changing my daily life.
Zellij looks powerful but also a bit too complex, following the "kitchen sink" school of design :-). No biggie but its name is too close to IntelliJ imho. What kind of workflow do you use with it?
I used tmux a bit back in the day, but these days I feel like good old tabs and app windows cover my needs. When I want to multiplex processes in a single window, I reach for Overmind. [1]
--
> Helix, the editor? How would you pitch it?
Cons: no session save, good Helix keybindings not available in other tools so confusing to switch between vim/hx mental models when in colab/vscode, no AI-assistants since no plugin system yet.
Is there more advanced stuff that's more complex that I just haven't seen?
Yes? I mean, it even has a system to install plugins made with WASM, from what I saw in the docs. I guess you could just use the basics and be okay with it.
For me, after years of tinkering with apps like Vim, Emacs, and AwesomeWM [1], I've developed a bit of PTSD over the amount of time these kinds of tools can take to configure and master [2]. Zellij feels like it belongs in this category of tools, and perhaps I'm overreacting or flinching. :-)
--
2: I've benefitted a lot from being able to use vim key bindings with extensions in apps like VS Code and emacs key bindings on places and I'm somewhat glad I spent the time, though.