-I'm Sacha Chua, and welcome to EmacsConf 2020. - - -2
-To kick things off, here are ten cool things - - -3
-that people have been working on - - -4
-since the conference last year. - - -5
-If you want to follow the links - - -6
-or if you'd like to add something I've missed, - - -7
-add them to the collaborative pad - - -8
-if you're watching this live - - -9
-or check out the EmacsConf wiki page for this talk. - - -10
-The big news this year was the release of Emacs 27.1, - - -11
-a little over two years after Emacs 26. - - -12
-Mickey Petersen's notes on the release are a great way - - -13
-to find out what's new, - - -14
-and John Wiegley's development update tomorrow - - -15
-will probably give more details. - - -16
-What's coming up for Emacs 28 and beyond? - - -17
-One of the branches that people are - - -18
-excited about is gccemacs, which compiles - - -19
-Emacs Lisp to native code so that it runs faster. - - -20
-To learn more, check out the Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code - - -21
-presentation from the European Lisp Symposium. - - -22
-There was a huge conversation about - - -23
-modernizing Emacs on emacs-devel and other places. - - -24
-Linux Weekly News has a good summary. - - -25
-One of the interesting sub-threads on emacs-devel - - -26
-was about using more variable-width fonts, - - -27
-which would probably go a long way to - - -28
-making Emacs look pretty fancy once people - - -29
-sort out the alignment issues. - - -30
-It looks like core Emacs will probably - - -31
-change slowly in terms of functionality and documentation, - - -32
-but starter kits and configuration give people - - -33
-a great way to experiment. - - -34
-Speaking of starter kits, - - -35
-Doom Emacs seems to be growing in popularity. - - -36
-It got a big boost thanks to DoomCasts and - - -37
-DistroTube videos. So if you're curious, - - -38
-go ahead and check those out. - - -39
-And for general Emacs topics, - - -40
-there have been a ton of other great videos - - -41
-from Protesilaos Stavrou, Mike Zamansky, System Crafters, - - -42
-and other folks. Good stuff. - - -43
-Org continues to be a big reason - - -44
-for people to get into Emacs. - - -45
-This year, Zettelkasten-based workflows - - -46
-became popular as people played around - - -47
-with organizing ideas into small chunks - - -48
-that are linked to each other. - - -49
-org-roam is one of the packages for doing that - - -50
-and there are three presentations about it this year. - - -51
-There are also non-Org ways to do it, - - -52
-such as zetteldeft, neuron-mode, and more. - - -53
-People have been experimenting - - -54
-with Org's appearance. - - -55
-Check these screenshots out for some ideas. - - -56
-Coding: Faster JSON processing - - -57
-is going to make working with - - -58
-code analysis tools better. - - -59
-LSP-mode released version 7 and gained more contributors, too, - - -60
-so there are probably exciting times ahead - - -61
-for making Emacs even more of an - - -62
-integrated development environment. - - -63
-EAF: The Emacs Application Framework - - -64
-has some pretty interesting demos of - - -65
-embedded Qt programs in Emacs on Linux. - - -66
-Matthew Zeng will give a presentation - - -67
-on its architecture and walk through some demos, - - -68
-so check that one out too if you want. - - -69
-The big real-world change this year - - -70
-was COVID-19, of course. It sucks. A lot. - - -71
-One good thing that's come out of it - - -72
-is that many Emacs meetups have moved online, - - -73
-so it's easier to connect with people - - -74
-no matter where you are in the world. - - -75
-There's one hosted by EmacsATX on December 2 - - -76
-and it's about re-builder, leaf, and feather. - - -77
-EmacsNYC's next meetup is on December 7 - - -78
-and it's about literate programming with Org Mode. - - -79
-The Berlin remote meetup was - - -80
-just a few days ago on November 25, - - -81
-and EmacsSF and Asia-Pacific - - -82
-probably have some coming up, too. - - -83
-People generally announce the meetups - - -84
-on reddit.com/r/emacs, so you can - - -85
-look there for updates. - - -86
-If you organize one of these, - - -87
-please let me know so that - - -88
-I can include it in Emacs News. - - -89
-Lastly, there's an unofficial survey of the Emacs community. - - -90
-It closes on November 30, - - -91
-so if you'd like to participate, - - -92
-you can fill out the form at emacssurvey.org - - -93
-or send it in via e-mail. - - -94
-So those were 10 quick highlights from this year. - - -95
-If you're curious, check out the EmacsConf 2020 wiki page - - -96
-for this talk so that you can follow the links. - - -97
-If you'd like to get updates every week, - - -98
-you can check out the Emacs News I put together. - - -99
-Feel free to send me cool stuff to include. - - -100
-Now on to the rest of EmacsConf! - -101
-Have fun, and thanks for joining us! - -- cgit v1.2.3