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#2My 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 thematically fit in.
Some devs even went out of their way to spend those two weeks on a single, irritating, deeply-rooted bug that nobody in their right mind would even want to fix.
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#3Idea for famous billionaires: support FOSS software and bug squashing streaks like this.
It automatically ensues positive image and accelerates advancement of humanity in science and tech, especially for programs that are core to everyday life of developers, like editors.
Someone tag Mr Musk.
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#4I didn't know this person before:
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/
A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs.
I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.
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#5It’s a shame most distros are still rocking emacs 27 and not including libgccjit makes installing 28+ a pain on windows.
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#6I find it inspiring to see how a interpreter that outlives me has such passionate and skilled contributors keeping it alive or rather, rejuvenating it with new life. Also impressed by the notion that someone could obtain such a strong command of, what I would consider, a somewhat "intimidating" codebase to own.
Happy Emacs user here and excited/grateful to see how well the ecosystem is currently doing.
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#7Idea for famous billionaires: support FOSS software and bug squashing streaks like this. It automatically ensues positive image and accelerates advancement of humanity in science and tech, especially for programs that are core to everyday life of developers, like editors. Someone tag Mr Musk.
Tag Mr Buffet. Don't tag anyone who will preside over the project as their own creation and will ultimately destroy any community momentum by turning it their own ego project that will destabilise the somewhat quiet community. We need funding, not more zealots
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#8It’s a shame most distros are still rocking emacs 27 and not including libgccjit makes installing 28+ a pain on windows.
On Ubuntu there is a snap available shipping Emacs 28 including native compilation turned on:
https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap
I am using it as a daily driver for months already without issues so far.
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#9Idea for famous billionaires: support FOSS software and bug squashing streaks like this. It automatically ensues positive image and accelerates advancement of humanity in science and tech, especially for programs that are core to everyday life of developers, like editors. Someone tag Mr Musk.
I think you overestimate the positive image boon. The only people who would care about supporting free software are fairly techy, and they're likely either already Musk supporters or so anti Musk they'd only see the move in a cynical light.
You can see this with Microsoft. Most people have no idea that "Microsoft Loves Open Source" is a thing. A few people seem to think Microsoft deserve the benefit of the doubt, some view it from a purely pragmatic view, and some will never forget "embrace, extend, extinguish."
The practical benefits might end up worthwhile for them though.
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#10It’s a shame most distros are still rocking emacs 27 and not including libgccjit makes installing 28+ a pain on windows.
Maybe the buntus are lagging behind in Emacs. I think most others have 28 in their releases.