[[!toc]] Q&A: live Duration: 24:52 If you have questions and the speaker has not indicated public contact information on this page, please feel free to e-mail us at and we'll forward your question to the speaker. # Talk
  1. 00:01 Introduction and conclusion
  2. 00:28 Who am I?
  3. 01:07 Is Emacs unpopular?
  4. 02:26 What does popularity really mean?
  5. 04:15 How do we measure popularity?
  6. 04:32 Google Trends
  7. 06:18 Stack Overflow Survey
  8. 08:20 Community Activity
  9. 10:23 How do editors lose popularity?
  10. 10:38 A new editor with better features appears
  11. 12:25 Lack of sufficient maintenance
  12. 14:01 The "fashion" moves on
  13. 14:36 What happens when an editor loses popularity?
  14. 17:10 How will Emacs survive *despite* popularity?
  15. 17:20 Emacs is more deeply hackable than almost all other editors
  16. 19:51 Emacs has a strong community of highly skilled package authors
  17. 21:15 Emacs has a very strong user community
  18. 22:33 The Emacs maintainers and contributors care about the users
  19. 23:40 Isn't all this supposed to come when an editor is popular?
  20. 24:22 When someone talks about popularity...
# Q&A
  1. 00:11 Thanks
  2. 01:16 In your opinion, what is Emacs' Achilles heel?
  3. 03:59 What is your opinion about the documentation of Emacs in other languages?
  4. 05:56 Do you think more effort should be made to popularize hacking on the C parts of Emacs?
  5. 07:21 Can you name a few features from other programming languages that you miss in Emacs Lisp?
  6. 08:01 What are your opinions on Emacs's commitments to free software?
  7. 09:12 Do you think that packages like Magit or Org mode make people see Emacs as an obstacle to these applications that they want to use?
  8. 12:32 Another way people can help inspire others to use Emacs
  9. 13:47 Should Emacs continue to present itself as an esoteric program and culture, or should we try to dispel the myth?
  10. 15:39 Do you think there could be changes made to the core of Emacs that would betray the ethos you and most people here appreciate?
  11. 16:11 When will David Wilson and Protesilaos collaborate?
  12. 16:28 If you had to choose between graphics or real browser support within Emacs, which would you choose?
  13. 17:18 How do you feel being an Emacs-focused YouTuber?
  14. 19:19 More typesetting capabilities versus better performance
  15. 21:20 Sneak peek of what's coming in the YouTube channel soon?
  16. 25:33 Principles and compromises
  17. 25:57 Understanding the value of Emacs Lisp
  18. 27:00 Will you do a video showing your personal workflow?
  19. 27:34 What do you think about Guix or NixOS?
  20. 29:02 Can you talk about your actual work?
  21. 32:08 Do your colleagues use Emacs as well?
  22. 36:12 Any thoughts on the idea that the best tool to use is the one that is easiest to leave?
  23. 40:13 Do you think there should be an updated initial configuration for fresh Emacs installations with more modern UI features and cool shortcuts?
  24. 43:19 How hard is it to get into the native code side of Emacs?
  25. 44:40 Emacs Chats
  26. 47:18 Livestreams
  27. 54:24 Short-form videos
# Description