Thanks to a work-in-progress Homebrew cask by Andi Péter (<https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues/15#issuecomment-11159294>), I was just able to quickly install and play with the new Gram code editor (<https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram#gram>) – a fork of Zed with all the bullshit (AI, telemetry, etc.) removed that looks like it could be great editor to recommend both for people just learning to code (as I was, recently, to recommend for people learning Kitten¹) as well as seasoned programmers who don’t want to work in terminal.

And, as a bonus, it actually has a Helix Editor mode so if that’s your daily driver (raises hand), you can just use it like Helix (i.e., Helix Editor in a graphical shell).

If you want to try Andi’s build (only works on Mac at the moment and remember, you have to trust Andi):

brew tap petrosz007/gram-tap <https://codeberg.org/Petrosz007/homebrew-gram-tap.git>
brew install --cask gram

PS. You can follow the author of Gram, [@krig](https://goto.liten.app/@krig), on the fediverse :)

¹ <https://kitten.small-web.org>

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This is just a fork of Helix. All claims rest with Helix maintainers and its copyright holders. I am just maintaining a fork. For more information, please see Helix's readme file.

[#Helix](https://mastodon.social/tags/Helix) users, this is by far the best workaround for missing autoreload in helix. <https://crates.io/crates/fs_watcher_lsp>

I've been using the [#HelixEditor](https://hachyderm.io/tags/HelixEditor) as my daily driver for the better part of a year now and I couldn't be more happy with it. I've managed to get a near-IDE setup and experience thanks to zellij and some awesome TUI tools.
This article aligns well with my experience, I recommend reading it if you're "modal editor curious" or dissatisfied with your (neo)vim config maintenance burden.

<https:herecomesthemoon.net/2025/06/i-like-helix/>

[#helix](https://hachyderm.io/tags/helix) [#modaleditor](https://hachyderm.io/tags/modaleditor) [#vim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/vim) [#neovim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/neovim)

The [#rust](https://hachyderm.io/tags/rust) ecosystem is getting bigger with the creation [#nucleo](https://hachyderm.io/tags/nucleo) from one of the very talented [#helix](https://hachyderm.io/tags/helix) developers.
A faster fuzzy matcher replacement compared to [#fzf](https://hachyderm.io/tags/fzf) and [#skim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/skim).

<https:github.com/helix-editor/nucleo>
<https:github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7814>