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# This Year in Org
Timothy (he/him, IRC: tecosaur)

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You've all been avid readers of the (somewhat irregular) "This Month in
Org", now you can be an avid listener of a special edition exclusive to
EmacsConf: "This Year in Org", a quick rundown of major developments in
Org over the past year, and perhaps a hint of some things lying around
the corner.


# Discussion

## Questions and answers

-   Q: Not a question, but just a great thanks for \"This month in org\"
    which helps us get awareness about the greatness of Org!
    -   A:Thanks :)
-   Q: Does the project need other kinds of support (infrastructre,
    etc.) which can\'t be covered by donations to devs? (without
    detriment to supporting devs!!)
    -   A: There isn\'t much in terms of ongoing costs (just hosting
        <https://orgmode.org> really), but donations are great for
        dignifying the work done, indicating the value it has to the
        community, motivating developers, and also helping
        justify/enable more time to be spent working on Org.
-   Q: What is the use of parsers in other languages? Is it to make org
    available in other applications?
    -   A:Org is being used outside Emacs (e.g. Hugo, Logseq, rendering
        on GitHub/GitLab/Gitea), and so it\'s worth trying to make sure
        they treat the syntax in a consistent manner. Similarly, if
        people build nice tools for Org outside Emacs, that\'s nice for
        us :)
    -   Voit: Shameless plug:
        <https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/README.org>
        is also an idea to promote the syntax of Org mode in tools
        outside of Emacs. After all, everybody is getting advantages
        when Orgdown (syntax of Org mode; often named \"org\" but it\'s
        frequently mixed up with the Elisp implementation) is a rather
        popular syntax.
-   Q: citar package is a really pleasant addition with support for
    org-style citations. What\'s your take?
    -   A: Citar is great, IMO
-   Q: How many hours a week do you spend contributing to org?
    -   A: It varies a lot. It\'s also a bit difficult to say, because
        there have been a fair few patch sets which have been
        \"incubated\" in my config before brining them to Org mode, and
        so I need to detangle \"time spent tinkering on Org in my
        config\" and \"time spent working on patches for Org mode\".
        Some weeks it\'s \~0h, others it might be as much as \~30h. The
        average might sit around \~5h, but that\'s just a wild guess.
-   Q: As a fan of emacs org-mode and Julia myself too, do you see any
    possiblities/wishes/plans to somehow connect org and julia evenmore
    (apart from ob-julia). Perhaps a julia parser of org-mode, or
    something like that?  Just wanna personally thank you for all the
    effort in org, emacs and julia you are putting throughout! I have
    learned quite a bit about doom emacs config from your blogs too. I
    feel like our setup/interest overlaps quite a bit, and its always
    helpful too see your work out there. Thanks again, keep up the great
    work!
    -   A: Wait a few slides 😉 (<https://github.com/tecosaur/Org.jl>)
-   Q: \"Org\", \"Org-mode\", \"org-mode\", \"Org/Org-mode\"? Which one
    for the format/notation and which one for the software proper, and
    then the whole thing (with org-contrib and third-party packages) vs
    just the repo and major mode per se?
    -   A: \"Org mode\" for the project, \"org-mode\" for the major
        mode, \"Org\" for the format
-   Q: How much time/week do you spend editing your doom config?
    -   A: Err, too much 😆 
    -   I feel that :D
-   Q:In your doom configs, you like using variables fonts and stuff,
    basically a lot visuals everywhere. I feel that it makes everything
    sluggish. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe there are less visible
    tricks in your config?
    -   A: It doesn\'t make things slow enough that I care, basically.
        Doom does some nice performance stuff, and I try to go for
        deferred loading and look for text-properties over overlays for
        performance in visual packages. As for varaible pitch fonts
        look, that\'s handled by Harfbuzz not elisp AFAIK (and so
        doesn\'t really affect performance).
-   Q: Do you use linux or mac system? What kinds if not a secret?Q
    -   Linux, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed specifically


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