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Neo Emacs – Emacs from the Future

23 points giancarlostoro 34 minutes ago 20 comments

tommica 20 minutes ago | parent

Oh that looks so pretty! I've wanted an excuse to try out emacs in the first place, and this could be it!

bigfishrunning 6 minutes ago | parent

Please just try out traditional Emacs, I'm not sure this will paint a fair picture.

nine_k 15 minutes ago | parent

> Aiming for modern design, multi-threaded Elisp, 10x performance and 100% Emacs compatibility.

I'm afraid that 100% compatibility may be very often at odds with multi-threaded elisp. So much in Emacs depends on global state :-/

whois 14 minutes ago | parent

Interesting interesting. I'm huge into Emacs and have felt like Emacs has needed a Neovim sort of moment for a while now. A lot of the modern features you'd expect out of an IDE are bad and slow in Emacs rn due to threading and pretty core issues to Emacs (so I cope and say I don't need autocomplete).

But also suspicious of anything this AI generated which touts rust like this.

smy20011 12 minutes ago | parent

Seems fully vibe coded :(

pkghost 10 minutes ago | parent

"Emacs, rewritten in Rust — unleashed on the GPU, fixing what 40 years of C never could."

convolvatron 7 minutes ago | parent

general issues aside, for me one of the issues with emacs is that for historical reasons there is a cut between elisp and C that's really high up and pretty ragged. ideally a large composable lisp project like emacs would have a very accessible continuum between the surface and the underpinnings.

so I don't think one can achieve that by maintaining 100% compatibility. a much smaller base system build with better semantics that was notionally compatible would be something I would be really excited to contribute to.

veqq 11 minutes ago | parent

Why not... Lem?

vatsachak 9 minutes ago | parent

Watch demo button on the website doesn't work.

I mean gnu-emacs is already quite snappy in Wayland mode.

bigfishrunning 6 minutes ago | parent

the "performance" link at the top also doesn't lead anywhere...

royal__ 9 minutes ago | parent

It's hard to take this seriously when it has wonky Claude website design. Rewriting emacs in Rust also feels like a nonsensical task.

puszczyk 8 minutes ago | parent

the webpage fills vibecoded in the worst way tbh; i don't think that's attractive to the current gen of emacs users

maybe it targets net new users?

Svoka 8 minutes ago | parent

Does the "Watch Demo" button do anything?

chrysoprace 5 minutes ago | parent

With neovim's cult following I figured it was only a matter of time before somebody made a similar rewrite for Emacs, even if it does smell of vibe-coding based on the README.

I don't see any notes in the README about alternative scripting engines, elisp was always the main that turned me off from emacs. Does anybody know if they plan to add something like Lua?