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libgccjit for faster elisp
I think that native JSON support is also in 28. It helps lsp.
That was added in 27.
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That works as long as there's no scoring system, no leaderboard and won't affect your performance review at the end of the year, or you'll just create another version of the Cobra Effect. "The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, howev…
I know the story, but still find myself smiling everytime I read it.
> Hacktoberfest is an October-long celebration to promote contributions to the free and open-source software communities. In 2020, participants were encouraged to submit four or more pull requests to any public free or open-source (FOS) repository, with a free "Hacktoberfest 2020" T-shirt for the first 75,000 participants to do so. The free T-shirts caused thousands of frivolous pull requests on FOS projects. A large volume of pull requests made by users amounted to counterproductive changes to code, including: changing project names from "My Project" to "My Awesome Project"; changing bullet points to dashes; and in some cases, even breaking working code
:/
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#43Why would you want an image-manipulation feature in a text editor (unless you were a developer who thought that it'd be a fun thing to work on)? That sounds like bloat of the worst kind...
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#44Heh! He closed one of mine! Emacs bugs I've reported can vary from "I'd like this behaviour" to "something ain't right here" to "docs are borked on ". Emacs is so stable there's not many crashing bugs to report. Emacs devs are great btw, tolerant of occasional n00bishness and very responsive.
hmmm. I'm a regular emacs user w/ Doom configuration on top of emacs. I love emacs and I use it exclusively, however it does crash sometimes for me. It's enough to notice, but not enough for me to care.
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#45Why would you want an image-manipulation feature in a text editor (unless you were a developer who thought that it'd be a fun thing to work on)? That sounds like bloat of the worst kind...
I mostly agree. But:
- image cropping in an image viewer is useful if you'd like to quickly crop screenshots before posting,
- you can already view images in emacs.
So the irksome bloat is likely already there, and stems from emacs not only being a text editor, but an operating system onto itself.
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I know the story, but still find myself smiling everytime I read it.
> Hacktoberfest is an October-long celebration to promote contributions to the free and open-source software communities. In 2020, participants were encouraged to submit four or more pull requests to any public free or open-source (FOS) repository, with a free "Hacktoberfest 2020" T-shirt for the first 75,000 participants to do so. The free T-shirts caused thousands of frivolous pull requests on FOS projects. A large…
It's a good resume filter though. "Hacktoberfest" => No Hire.
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#47My previous employer used to plan "express checkout" weeks for developers. In between two larger projects, you'd get the chance to spend two weeks doing nothing other than picking low-hanging fruits off the bug-tracker tree. It worked miracles, with minor-but-irritating bugs getting solved much faster, and with features for niche groups getting implemented as opposed to laying in wait for a bigger project it would th…
I was on a team that did three week sprints separated by a one week “do whatever you want” while the manager and tech lead planned the next three week sprint. I lived for those weeks! It was great for fixing bugs, refactoring for the hell of it, or adding new internal features. I probably learned the most during those one weeks, because someone would inevitably refactor something and we would all learn from the appro…
How awful were your main sprints that were foisted on your without you being involved in the planning?
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#48Why would you want an image-manipulation feature in a text editor (unless you were a developer who thought that it'd be a fun thing to work on)? That sounds like bloat of the worst kind...
It's an IDE not a text editor.
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#49Why would you want an image-manipulation feature in a text editor (unless you were a developer who thought that it'd be a fun thing to work on)? That sounds like bloat of the worst kind...
Emacs is more of a Lisp interpreter with a text editor front-end interface. That said, being able to work with images can be useful. For example, while documenting the workflow of a GUI application it can be useful to open some screenshots and highlight relevant sections.
While it is true that dedicated applications are usually more capable and convenient for specialised tasks, having tools integrated together like in Emacs also has its strengths (e.g. it can allow for heavy scripting of a workflow).
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#50Heh! He closed one of mine! Emacs bugs I've reported can vary from "I'd like this behaviour" to "something ain't right here" to "docs are borked on ". Emacs is so stable there's not many crashing bugs to report. Emacs devs are great btw, tolerant of occasional n00bishness and very responsive.
hmmm. I'm a regular emacs user w/ Doom configuration on top of emacs. I love emacs and I use it exclusively, however it does crash sometimes for me. It's enough to notice, but not enough for me to care.
Only consistent 'disaster' I get from emacs is it freezes up totally in low memory conditions. I haven't had time to repro + report this yet.
If you can repeat a crash, please do report it.