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# An Experimental Emacs Core in Rust
Troy Hinckley - https://coredumped.dev, <mailto:troy@troyhinckley.com>

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An overview and discussion and early prototype of a new Emacs core written in Rust. The talk covers some of the interesting design choices in the GNU Emacs C core, as well as some of the trade-offs made in the Rust core. <https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune>

-   What is the Emacs core?
-   How has the core evolved?
-   Design trade-offs
    -   multi-threading
    -   Precise GC
-   Being bug compatible with GNU Emacs
-   Comparison

About the speaker:

Hardware Engineer with interest in low-level programming and the hardware-software boundary.



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