EmacsConf 2024: An experimental Emacs core in Rust - Troy Hinckley

emacsconf.org/...
00:00.000 Rune
00:17.082 The Emacs core
00:57.168 Why create this?
01:55.865 How does this compare to other projects?
03:01.315 Multi-threading
03:32.441 Multi-threading elisp
03:47.648 No-GIL method
04:32.638 Actors
04:51.252 Multi-threading elisp (functions)
05:34.680 Caveats
05:57.090 Multi-threading elisp (data)
06:38.249 Copy values to other threads on demands
06:57.884 Multi-threading elisp (buffers)
08:11.903 Would this actually be useful?
08:46.919 Precise garbage collection
09:16.537 How Emacs used to deal with roots
10:38.713 Conservative stack scanning
11:00.157 Movable objects
12:38.829 How Rust makes precise GC easy
14:13.227 Other Rust niceties: proc macro
15:14.560 sum types
16:01.041 Regex
16:16.052 Parsers
16:27.210 Other changes: GUI first, terminal second
16:58.919 Off-screen cursor
17:16.305 Image flow
17:24.440 Testing
18:36.345 Status
19:07.247 Next directions
19:22.739 How to get involved
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[@tarjeibaerland]

Really interesting approach. I like the humility in the beginning, the likes of "this is to try new approaches".

[@kevinrineer5356]

Wow its really nice that there's already a huge elisp test suite that can be used for a different core interpreter.
Ack, I can't believe I've already starred the repo and haven't contributed anything to it. That'll be on my Jan 2025 goals list!

[@shfxpl]

This is awesome!

[@Ateshtesh]

Why the obsession for re writte all the open source apps with rust?

[@shfxpl]

It's all in the video man, I think you didn't watch it. Type safety, fearless concurrency, proc macros and many more features that makes rust great candidate.