> An atrocious version of "fuzzy matching" (you have to separate terms with spaces, which are then turned into ".asterisk" (can't type a single asterisk in HN comments) and everything's concatenated into a regex to match)
That's not true. Helm doesn't just insert .asterisk, which is why it supports out of order matching. If one searches for "file rename" Helm will find rename-file, while typing "filerename" in ido it will not find it. In ido one would have to do "file<C-SPC>rename"
> Dictatorial maintainers that only allows options and features that they deem the "right way" to do it.
Helm is already criticized by many ido fans for having too many features, now it's also criticized by ido fans for not having more (despite it having way more than ido).
> Constant bugs
This is because helm is constantly changing and improving. ido is not changing, and most extensions to it are very hacky.
I prefer ido, but helm is a good tool that's perfectly usable that tons of people like and does a lot more than ido.
That's not true. Helm doesn't just insert .asterisk, which is why it supports out of order matching. If one searches for "file rename" Helm will find rename-file, while typing "filerename" in ido it will not find it. In ido one would have to do "file<C-SPC>rename"
> Dictatorial maintainers that only allows options and features that they deem the "right way" to do it.
Helm is already criticized by many ido fans for having too many features, now it's also criticized by ido fans for not having more (despite it having way more than ido).
> Constant bugs
This is because helm is constantly changing and improving. ido is not changing, and most extensions to it are very hacky.
I prefer ido, but helm is a good tool that's perfectly usable that tons of people like and does a lot more than ido.