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+# Don't write that package! or: How I learned to stop worrying and love emacs-devel
+Stefan Kangas
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+We need a successful Emacs on this planet.  This means that we need an
+excellent out-of-the-box experience -- one that just works, but that you
+can still hack and customize.  There is so much great experimentation
+and work going on out there in the wider Emacs community, but we would
+be even better off if more of that could go into Emacs itself.
+
+Emacs' greatest strength is unfortunately sometimes also its greatest
+weakness: it is *too* hackable.
+
+On occasion, people out there add stuff to their Init file to fix this
+or that annoyance, or even bug.  The more ambitious might go on to
+package up such fixes: "Hey, 'foo-mode' doesn't have support for
+'bookmark-set', let's write a package!"  I am here to suggest that you
+should not do that.
+
+You should submit a patch to Emacs!  Maybe more people have that same
+problem or annoyance, and would benefit from your solution?
+
+It is sometimes perceived as hard to contribute to Emacs core.  I want
+to encourage more people to get involved, and show that the barrier to
+entry is really not that high.  If I can do it, you can do it too!
+
+So should you really write that package, or should you stop worrying and
+learn to love emacs-devel?  Listen to my talk to find out more!
+
+# Discussion
+
+- I can imagine using bindat to improve Emacs's music player packages e.g. reading/writing metadata tags
+- I hadn't heard of Poke until today
+- Curious: how is gnu poke more flexible?
+- I was surprised to see that a whole new DSL was developed for poke from scratch.
+- I'll ask what I also asked Andrea earlier: What hobbies/interests do you have besides Emacs (and PL)?  :)
+- Do you think would have been better to develop/improve a library like bindat on top of an existing language instead?
+- What are some of your favorite talks from this conf so far?
+- If you ever write a library for window management in Emacs, you could call it winnie.el :)
+- How do you see more control over types (type hints/decl through type specifiers etc) (SBCL like programming model) coming into Elisp?
+- Do you plan to add bit-level support?
+- I think this is classic problem that is almost impossible to accomplish
+  - many libraries try to do that but in the end the only  working ones are relaying on C compilers
+- also you have the problem of size of objects
+- like how big is a long?
+- this is not specified and is arch dependent
+- parsing a generic .h file is way more difficult
+- yep, the automatic translation is more for libraries trying to write automatically C bindings
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