Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs

Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs github.com

NEO Emacs (WIP): GPU powered Emacs written in Rust with a modern display engine. Aiming for modern design & multi-threaded Elisp, 10x performance, zero-pause concurrent GC and 100% Emacs compat...

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progv4 days ago

I’m not sure I understand what the purpose is? Performance metrics are only interesting when they affect a user. If you decrease latency on an API endpoint from 50ms to 40ms, you’ve had a 20% reduction in time. But if the user doesn’t notice, who cares?

I’ve never found that Emacs is sluggish for me.

andsoitis4 days ago

How about building in Common Lisp instead?

tagfowufe4 days ago

Clearly LLM-assisted. However, it's extremely enticing... A much needed update. The Neo Editor (Flame) Wars could rekindle again!

jbgreer4 days ago

I don’t see a LICENSE file in the project root. I’m wondering which will be chosen.

untilted1 day ago

GPLv3: https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs/blob/main/COPYING

rtmkrptn4 days ago

This kind of braifucking is neat. Personally i like making some number theory functions witohut gcd, mod, and conditionals.

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