It has the same plugin system, but they pull from Open VSX rather than Microsoft's extension marketplace. If there's an extension not available there, you can still download it from Microsoft's marketplace and then add it manually.
I'm just waiting for the inbuilt file explorer to stabilise. The only thing I miss is easy file navigation. The fuzzy searcher just isn't what I want most of the time.
I see. I used to use things like nerdtree in vim, but when switching to helix I just accepted the fuzzy file search, and now I don't see why I would ever need anything else to open files.
No one has said Emacs yet, I was a long time vim/neovim user but switched a couple of years ago, still learning rust but it's been pretty comfy so far, plus I can wash my dishes in it.
Wow crazy. I honestly couldn't say what lsp settings I use. My personal config broke a while back and I use Astronvim now until I get to fixing it... Although so far its been good enough that I just dont bother moving back...
Wow, no one mentioning IntelliJ?? I use the free edition with Rust and it works great... the only thing missing is a debugger, which requires the CLion distribution which is not free... but so far that hasn't been a big problem for me.
I alternate between CLion and VSCode depending on what I'm doing. CLion has nice refactoring tools, but VSCode has much better GitHub Copilot integration.