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