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Q&A: live
Duration: 24:52
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# Talk
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00:01 Introduction and conclusion
00:28 Who am I?
01:07 Is Emacs unpopular?
02:26 What does popularity really mean?
04:15 How do we measure popularity?
04:32 Google Trends
06:18 Stack Overflow Survey
08:20 Community Activity
10:23 How do editors lose popularity?
10:38 A new editor with better features appears
12:25 Lack of sufficient maintenance
14:01 The "fashion" moves on
14:36 What happens when an editor loses popularity?
17:10 How will Emacs survive *despite* popularity?
17:20 Emacs is more deeply hackable than almost all other editors
19:51 Emacs has a strong community of highly skilled package authors
21:15 Emacs has a very strong user community
22:33 The Emacs maintainers and contributors care about the users
23:40 Isn't all this supposed to come when an editor is popular?
24:22 When someone talks about popularity...
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# Q&A
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00:00 Thanks
00:26 In your opinion, what is Emacs' Achilles heel?
03:09 What is your opinion about the documentation of Emacs in other languages?
05:06 Do you think more effort should be made to popularize hacking on the C parts of Emacs?
06:31 Can you name a few features from other programming languages that you miss in Emacs Lisp?
07:12 What are your opinions on Emacs's commitments to free software?
08:22 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?
11:42 Another way people can help inspire others to use Emacs
12:57 Should Emacs continue to present itself as an esoteric program and culture, or should we try to dispel the myth?
14:49 Do you think there could be changes made to the core of Emacs that would betray the ethos you and most people here appreciate?
15:22 When will David Wilson and Protesilaos collaborate?
15:38 If you had to choose between graphics or real browser support within Emacs, which would you choose?
16:28 How do you feel being an Emacs-focused YouTuber?
18:29 More typesetting capabilities versus better performance
20:31 Sneak peek of what's coming in the YouTube channel soon?
24:43 Principles and compromises
25:07 Understanding the value of Emacs Lisp
26:10 Will you do a video showing your personal workflow?
26:44 What do you think about Guix or NixOS?
28:12 Can you talk about your actual work?
31:18 Do your colleagues use Emacs as well?
35:23 Any thoughts on the idea that the best tool to use is the one that is easiest to leave?
39:23 Do you think there should be an updated initial configuration for fresh Emacs installations with more modern UI features and cool shortcuts?
42:29 How hard is it to get into the native code side of Emacs?
43:50 Emacs Chats
46:28 Livestreams
53:34 Short-form videos
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