An Experimental Emacs Core in Rust

Troy Hinckley - https://coredumped.dev, troy@troyhinckley.com

Format: 20-min talk; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room
Status: TO_CONFIRM

Description

An overview and discussion and early prototype of a new Emacs core written in Rust. The talk covers some of the interesting design choices in the GNU Emacs C core, as well as some of the trade-offs made in the Rust core. https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune

• What is the Emacs core?
• How has the core evolved?
• Design trade-offs
  • multi-threading
  • Precise GC
• Being bug compatible with GNU Emacs
• Comparison

About the speaker:

Hardware Engineer with interest in low-level programming and the hardware-software boundary.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail troy@troyhinckley.com

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