Yes, internal links will be introduced in the next version along with other features like standard theming and more. Ekphos is currently in a rapid development stage and is slowly reaching core markdown feature parity with Obsidian. Feel free to open a discussion in the gitHub repo for things that would be nice to add to Ekphos :)
Feature wise, not all will be implemented due to the limitations of a terminal user interface, but it has upsides in performance and being lightweight, plus native nvim keybindings for nvim users
Yeah sure :) The motivation is actually really that simple. I was searching for a markdown editor similar to Obsidian with a terminal user interface, but I couldn't find any that really fit the needs of a proper markdown tool like Obsidian. Though Ekphos isn't yet reaching what Obsidian is capable of, we're surely getting closer and closer. But I want to take only what really matters from Obsidian, so it doesn't get bloated and people can really focus on writing the markdown
I was thinking a plugin wouldn't be sufficient for extending it beyond a regular markdown editor, so I went for a full standalone app instead for better upgradeability, optimization, etc.