I'm no developer but I've been using kakoune for editing for the past month or two and the experience is very good. Mawww has been working on the editor for the

I'm no developer but I've been using kakoune for editing for the past month or two and the experience is very good. Mawww has been working on the editor for the past 3 years so it's in a pretty good shape. Programming-wise there's syntax highlighting for many languages already, check out https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/tree/master/rc https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/tree/master/rc for a list. Adding a basic syntax highlighter is simple enough as well. IDE-wise you'll get the best experience when writing c/c++ I think as the author does that and put a lot of effort in it running smoothly. Editing-wise I like the features more than vim's or emacs'. Working with multiple selections is very effective, fast and fun. Stability-wise I don't think you have to worry too much anymore, there's occasional bugs that are fixed very quickly and the key bindings are pretty much set (there's a minor change every now and then when implementing new bindings but nothing major). Customizing-wise there's enough options and they are quite well thought out. There's no vimscript or elisp, for the design choices check out https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/design.asciidoc https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/design.asci... . The author is also very responsive to suggestions and is implementing features the users are asking for (if they make sense and conform to the design of course).