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An Experimental Emacs Core in Rust

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

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Schedule for SaturdaySaturday 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-open 9:10- 9:20 Writing academic papers in Org-Roampapers 9:40-10:00 Managing writing project metadata with org-modeproject10:20-10:40 The Future of Orgorg-update11:00-11:10 Colour your Emacs with easecolor11:30-11:50 Emacs, eev, and Maxima - now!maxima 1:00- 1:10 My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs themetheme 1:30- 1:45 Watering my (digital) plant with Emacs timerswater 1:55- 2:35 Emacs as a shellshell 2:45- 3:05 Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suitecasual 3:25- 3:45 New in hyperdrive.el: org-transclusion, easy installation, and more!hyperdrive 4:05- 4:15 Emacs Writing Studiowriting 4:25- 4:50 Emacs 30 Highlightsemacs30 5:00- 5:10 Saturday closing remarkssat-close10:00-10:20 Gypsum: my clone of Emacs and ELisp written in Schemegypsum10:40-11:00 An experimental Emacs core in Rustrust11:20-11:45 p-search: a local search engine in Emacsp-search 1:00- 1:10 Exploring shared philosophies in Julia and Emacsjulia 1:25- 1:45 Beguiling Emacs: Guile-Emacs relaunched!guile 1:55- 2:05 Committing secrets with git using sops-modesecrets 2:25- 3:25 Elisp and McCLIMmcclim 3:45- 4:05 Reproducibly building Emacs: “Hey your checksum is the same as mine!”repro9 AM10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM

Format: 21-min talk; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/current/bbb-rust.html
Discuss on IRC: #emacsconf
Status: Quality check

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Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~10:40 AM - 11:00 AM EST (US/Eastern)
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Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~9:40 AM - 10:00 AM CST (US/Central)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~8:40 AM - 9:00 AM MST (US/Mountain)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~7:40 AM - 8:00 AM PST (US/Pacific)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~3:40 PM - 4:00 PM UTC
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Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~9:10 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Asia/Kolkata)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~11:40 PM - 12:00 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)
Sunday, Dec 8 2024, ~12:40 AM - 1:00 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)
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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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