If I may ask, why not neovim instead of this?
Or maybe one of the flavors of neovim distros?

On one hand it has treesitter and has a builtin optional modal mode with Vim shortcuts. On the other hand it is VSCode. On the side above it, it is a terminal application. And one more side is, it is written in Rust. Cursed, through and through.

On a more serious note, this is more than just an alternative. Its the bridge between VSCode people and those who want to try working in a terminal. I think this is actually a really good idea.

Finally, vim2.

This might be fire for phone usage with Termux 👀

No thanks, the vibe code slop is super apparent

Screenshots would be good...

no allocation churn under heavy alt-screen TUI workloads (vt100 0.16 leaks tens of GB under multi-hour claude-style streams; this does not).

Interesting stress test you got there.