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@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr · 9 hours ago

Here we are: an Emacs clone (a rewrite in Rust!) being vibe-coded
https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs/

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GitHub - eval-exec/neomacs: 🚀 NEO Emacs — A GPU-powered Emacs written in Rust with a modern display engine. Aiming for modern design/multi-threaded Elisp, 10x performance and 100% Emacs compatibility. Inline 4K images/4K videos/WPEWebKit using GPU acceleration, DMA-BUF, ZERO-COPY. Rich animation effects support.

🚀 NEO Emacs — A GPU-powered Emacs written in Rust with a modern display engine. Aiming for modern design/multi-threaded Elisp, 10x performance and 100% Emacs compatibility. Inline 4K images/4K vi...

Konrad Hinsen

@khinsen@scholar.social · 2 hours ago

@civodul I hope they rewrote their LLM in Rust first, for real Rust vibes.

Ludovic Courtès

@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr · 9 hours ago

I find it ironic given that Emacs was designed with the idea that it would empower people by allow them to learn programming “without noticing”.
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736/AIM-519A.pdf

Screenshot of Section 8.3 of AI memo 519A: "When large numbers of nontechnical workers are using a programmable editor, they will be tempted constantly to begin programming"

d@nny disc@ mc²

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run · 9 hours ago

@civodul thank you so much for this background

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