EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by todsacerdoti » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 3:51 PM UTC

EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
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Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by nosefrog » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

I'm glad emacsconf is still a thing :)

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by markmichalski » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

I’m not a long-time emacs user, but as a new one, my enthusiasm is really growing.

Like everyone, I’m finding that I’m in an increasingly disparate set of tools with diverging interface design choices to get my jobs done. The cognitive dissonance that all these different interfaces presents me with feels like it’s getting out of hand, and is growing non-linearly.

Emacs is a arcane tool, and is dated in so many ways, but I don’t know that I can find another solution that allows me to counter the ever-growing complexity of software productivity solutions that I presented with both in my personal and professional life. I know I’m not alone.

As someone who’s not a developer nor a full-time product person, (actually a doctor that wandered into tech), I often wonder why I can’t choose my own front end, and why am forced to use interfaces that don’t work very well for me. Emacs helps me escape some of that (at the cost of a huge relative learning curve, granted)

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

markmichalski wrote: post #3

I’m not a long-time emacs user, but as a new one, my enthusiasm is really growing. Like everyone, I’m finding that I’m in an increasingly disparate set of tools with diverging interface design choices to get my jobs done. The cognitive dissonance that all these different interfaces presents me with feels like it’s getting out of hand, and is growing non-linearly. Emacs is a arcane tool, and is dated in so many ways,…

Well said. :-)

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by yewenjie » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

Last year EmacsConf was amazing. Looking forward to another great edition.

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by thecatster » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

Same as everyone else, happy to see EmacsConf is here. Hoping to get a talk together this time around.

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by ddavis » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

Emacs is really thriving right now. There are a lot of creative developers contributing to a really nice ecosystem of packages right now, with some things getting pushed upstream.

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by BeetleB » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

markmichalski wrote: post #3

I’m not a long-time emacs user, but as a new one, my enthusiasm is really growing. Like everyone, I’m finding that I’m in an increasingly disparate set of tools with diverging interface design choices to get my jobs done. The cognitive dissonance that all these different interfaces presents me with feels like it’s getting out of hand, and is growing non-linearly. Emacs is a arcane tool, and is dated in so many ways,…

> As someone who’s not a developer nor a full-time product person,

If this year's Emacsconf is anything like the last one, you are a good candidate for watching/attending it. I know whenever Emacs is brought up on HN inevitable comparisons with IDEs and VSCode are made, but if you browse last year's talks, you'll see that most talks are not related to SW development. Emacs has a lot of enthusiasts who like it not for SW development but as an ecosystem.

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by badsectoracula » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

markmichalski wrote: post #3

I’m not a long-time emacs user, but as a new one, my enthusiasm is really growing. Like everyone, I’m finding that I’m in an increasingly disparate set of tools with diverging interface design choices to get my jobs done. The cognitive dissonance that all these different interfaces presents me with feels like it’s getting out of hand, and is growing non-linearly. Emacs is a arcane tool, and is dated in so many ways,…

Unified interfaces and allowing users to transfer any transferable knowledge between programs was one of the main ideas behind GUIs like the original Macintosh and Windows, but somewhere around the turn of the millennium things... broke.

But there was a time when interfaces were unified, sometimes to an absurd level (e.g. applications having a File menu when they had nothing to do with files) but IMO that is still better than every app being its own thing.

Re: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

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Post by agumonkey » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 6:22 PM UTC

markmichalski wrote: post #3

I’m not a long-time emacs user, but as a new one, my enthusiasm is really growing. Like everyone, I’m finding that I’m in an increasingly disparate set of tools with diverging interface design choices to get my jobs done. The cognitive dissonance that all these different interfaces presents me with feels like it’s getting out of hand, and is growing non-linearly. Emacs is a arcane tool, and is dated in so many ways,…

there's some enjoyable stability in emacs in a way, sadly it's changing a bit due to the growing number of packages and overlays. But it's still a little less tiring than trying idea then vscode then

In emacs I get my freedom, it's cool. And in 2020.. it's the 2nd or 3rd lightest choice.