Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
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Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
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Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#2Oh Emacs. A graybeard I respect got me to try it about 5 years ago. I used to walk by his machine and think "wow, in a movie about a hacker, this is what their computer screen would look like". I also thought Magit was pretty damn cool because it made interacting with Git extremely intuitive (once you're comfortable with Emacs).
In the years since first picking up Emacs, I have probably spent 100 hours or more configuring it, reconfiguring it, refactoring my configuration, and other things that wasted my time I'm not going to make the world a better place by configuring my editor. I'm going to do it by shipping code.
I'm a recovering terminal junkie. I had a problem. I was bored with my work so I wanted to challenge myself. Maybe I even enjoyed procrastinating a little.
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#3(from the slides)
>I learned Emacs in September, 1983
>It is now November, 2019
>...that’s over thirty six years!
>An amazingly long time.
Hmm, I think I learned Emacs around the same time. Yes, sometimes I think it is weird that I'm still using it.
I get a lot of pushback when I say that the developer environment hasn't advanced amazingly in all those years. Devs will point to one or more rather small incremental improvement. I'm sorry but I think we are still in the Bronze Age of programming.
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#4As an emacs user I like the little rant about keyboards towards the end (54:27). It's stupid hard to find a laptop with good keys, good layout, good internals, and good battery.
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#5There are lines in my Emacs config files that are older than some of the programmers I work with, so I can relate.
Contrary to what some people think, Emacs does not require constant tweaking and wasting time on configuration. I revisit my setup every couple of years or so, and I always find it is time well spent, as my productivity goes up as a result.
I do not know of a better environment for multi-language programming, and I often look around and try different things to see if they match up.
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#6Oh Emacs. A graybeard I respect got me to try it about 5 years ago. I used to walk by his machine and think "wow, in a movie about a hacker, this is what their computer screen would look like". I also thought Magit was pretty damn cool because it made interacting with Git extremely intuitive (once you're comfortable with Emacs). In the years since first picking up Emacs, I have probably spent 100 hours or more config…
Spending time on your tools instead of your work is not a sign that you need to change your tools - it's a sign that your work sucks.
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#7Oh Emacs. A graybeard I respect got me to try it about 5 years ago. I used to walk by his machine and think "wow, in a movie about a hacker, this is what their computer screen would look like". I also thought Magit was pretty damn cool because it made interacting with Git extremely intuitive (once you're comfortable with Emacs). In the years since first picking up Emacs, I have probably spent 100 hours or more config…
So if you’re not making the world a better place you’re wasting your time?
Play is supremely important in almost any activity. Not only is there incredible work insight to be found in activity without goals, but play is fun and good for you.
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#8So the slides say...
> Concurrency safety isn’t an accident. So far,only Rust has a good story on concurrency thanks to its type system.
Is that really true? I've really enjoyed concurrency in D.
http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/advent-of-d/#day18
How much better can it be? And yes, D's concurrency is also based around types.
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#9As an emacs user I like the little rant about keyboards towards the end (54:27). It's stupid hard to find a laptop with good keys, good layout, good internals, and good battery.
I'm partial to the Emacs keybindings, but you you're so right about the laptop keyboards. Mine doesn't have an End key (Home, PgDn, PgUp, Power).
Re: Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
#10Emacs has really undergone a renaissance in the past decade - magit, LSP, ivy, spacemacs, doom emacs - there have been so many novel new packages and frameworks written by elisp hackers.
For such an old editor, the development scene feels incredibly alive.