Explore the future of Emacs in this Q&A session from EmacsConf 2019, featuring Perry E. Metzger's insights on "Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years." Delve into crucial topics such as parallel and concurrent code, the potential replacement of C with Rust, improved HTML rendering, native LSP support, and enhanced email and PIM integration. Discover discussions on Emacs becoming more like an operating system, better chat clients, and the vision of a hacker-friendly user interface. Engage with audience questions covering web rendering challenges, future non-programmer users, JavaScript support, default configurations, mobile Emacs, and potential long-term competitors. Gain valuable perspectives on Emacs' evolution and its role in the next four decades of text editing and beyond.
Overview
Syllabus
How do we deal with the fact that the web rendering library seemed to be essentially security unsupportable
What are your thoughts for a future of Emacs users who are not programmers
Should Emacs be rewritten
Emacs as a web browser
Emacs configuration
Rust dependencies
Maintaining copyleft
Emacs in the browser
Remax
Taught by
EmacsConf and Emacs hangouts
