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I'm Sacha Chua, and welcome to EmacsConf 2020.
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To kick things off, here are ten cool things
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that people have been working on
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since the conference last year.
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If you want to follow the links
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or if you'd like to add something I've missed,
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add them to the collaborative pad
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if you're watching this live
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or check out the EmacsConf wiki page for this talk.
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The big news this year was the release of Emacs 27.1,
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a little over two years after Emacs 26.
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Mickey Petersen's notes on the release are a great way
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to find out what's new,
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and John Wiegley's development update tomorrow
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will probably give more details.
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What's coming up for Emacs 28 and beyond?
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One of the branches that people are
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excited about is gccemacs, which compiles
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Emacs Lisp to native code so that it runs faster.
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To learn more, check out the Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
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presentation from the European Lisp Symposium.
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There was a huge conversation about
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modernizing Emacs on emacs-devel and other places.
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Linux Weekly News has a good summary.
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One of the interesting sub-threads on emacs-devel
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was about using more variable-width fonts,
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which would probably go a long way to
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making Emacs look pretty fancy once people
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sort out the alignment issues.
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It looks like core Emacs will probably
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change slowly in terms of functionality and documentation,
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but starter kits and configuration give people
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a great way to experiment.
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Speaking of starter kits,
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Doom Emacs seems to be growing in popularity.
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It got a big boost thanks to DoomCasts and
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DistroTube videos. So if you're curious,
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go ahead and check those out.
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And for general Emacs topics,
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there have been a ton of other great videos
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from Protesilaos Stavrou, Mike Zamansky, System Crafters,
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and other folks. Good stuff.
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Org continues to be a big reason
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for people to get into Emacs.
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This year, Zettelkasten-based workflows
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became popular as people played around
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with organizing ideas into small chunks
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that are linked to each other.
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org-roam is one of the packages for doing that
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and there are three presentations about it this year.
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There are also non-Org ways to do it,
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such as zetteldeft, neuron-mode, and more.
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People have been experimenting
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with Org's appearance.
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Check these screenshots out for some ideas.
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Coding: Faster JSON processing
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is going to make working with
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code analysis tools better.
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LSP-mode released version 7 and gained more contributors, too,
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so there are probably exciting times ahead
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for making Emacs even more of an
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integrated development environment.
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EAF: The Emacs Application Framework
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has some pretty interesting demos of
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embedded Qt programs in Emacs on Linux.
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Matthew Zeng will give a presentation
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on its architecture and walk through some demos,
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so check that one out too if you want.
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The big real-world change this year
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was COVID-19, of course. It sucks. A lot.
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One good thing that's come out of it
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is that many Emacs meetups have moved online,
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so it's easier to connect with people
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no matter where you are in the world.
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There's one hosted by EmacsATX on December 2
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and it's about re-builder, leaf, and feather.
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EmacsNYC's next meetup is on December 7
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and it's about literate programming with Org Mode.
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The Berlin remote meetup was
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just a few days ago on November 25,
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and EmacsSF and Asia-Pacific
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probably have some coming up, too.
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People generally announce the meetups
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on reddit.com/r/emacs, so you can
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look there for updates.
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If you organize one of these,
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please let me know so that
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I can include it in Emacs News.
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Lastly, there's an unofficial survey of the Emacs community.
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It closes on November 30,
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so if you'd like to participate,
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you can fill out the form at emacssurvey.org
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or send it in via e-mail.
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So those were 10 quick highlights from this year.
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If you're curious, check out the EmacsConf 2020 wiki page
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for this talk so that you can follow the links.
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If you'd like to get updates every week,
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you can check out the Emacs News I put together.
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Feel free to send me cool stuff to include.
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Now on to the rest of EmacsConf!
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Have fun, and thanks for joining us!
