Hell doesn’t change, but which is Heaven now? “There are more editors in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” vim is the old stand-by, and is still a king among editors, but now we have Helix, Kakoune, and even a resurgence of interest in ed and edline. You can’t swing a teddy bear without hitting a new editor, half of them written in Rust, the rest in a grab bag of Go, zig, V, or Nim. And that’s just the TUIs.

Hell… Hell is for hell… Hell is for hell… Hell is for emacs.

Hell Is For Children by Pat Benatar

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By chance, do you know why neovim feels ten times more smooth in a TTY than in a graphic environment?
Nope. But IME it’s common for GUIs to be slower and to use more memory than their TUI counterparts.