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Duration: 25:57  

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# Talk

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# Q&A

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00:00 BBB: Tools like coccinelle might work with changes like this in Lisp...
02:19 BBB: I thought lexical binding conversion would be more proof-based...
05:01 BBB: Is the Emacs in the presentation your personal config?
06:04 How often these changes break packages/maintainers complain about changes
08:52 Which Emacs subsystem was the hardest to convert to lexical binding?
10:10 BBB: Would you consider making more short informal videos to help others?
10:32 BBB: I'm curious about your style of signing your mailing list messages.
11:25 BBB: Older code being harder to convert
12:40 BBB: Could metaobject protocol support come to Elisp?
14:10 BBB: What features do you see as higher priority for future development?
16:55 BBB: Would ELPA download counts be difficult to code?
17:55 BBB: Do you install packages from MELPA?
18:55 BBB: Are you using native-comp already?
20:10 BBB: Do you use Org much?
21:10 BBB: Do you use magit?
22:05 BBB: Some future Emacs improvements you're looking forward to?
23:10 BBB: Opinion about recent GStreamer patches?
24:20 BBB: Have you ever met other Emacs maintainers/developers in person?
25:25 BBB: What's Lars like in real life? He seems fun.
25:58 BBB: How do you hack on installed packages?
27:43 BBB: Is Lars tall?
28:06 BBB: How Elisp should evolve, or is another language the long-term path?
30:29 BBB: Do you use paredit?
30:33 BBB: Do you lean toward Scheme-style macros rather than CL ones?
32:04 BBB: What non-Lisp languages could we take inspiration from?
32:43 BBB: I'd like to see something like a with-gensyms macro to make them easier.
33:42 BBB: Can namespaces solve some macro issues?
34:15 BBB: Difficulties preserving source code data for symbols and sexps?
36:24 BBB: Doesn't adding code/data distinction break homoiconicity?
36:40 BBB: Could a Clojure-like metadata approach to this be useful?
37:14 Fat cons cells/symbols
38:32 BBB: Could fat cons cells be used for CL-style VALUES too?
38:57 Concurrent garbage collection
39:52 BBB: GC work even more tedious than janitorial work?
40:50 BBB: Are you Canadian/Quebecois, or do you just live and work there?
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