A long-time Emacs developer announces retirement from the platform after 20 years of use, having gradually transitioned to Vim and built replacement applications. The author is seeking new maintainers for several active Emacs packages they developed, including Elfeed and various utilities. The retirement marks the completion of native C++ replacements for key Emacs tools like the calculator and RSS reader.
Background
Emacs is a highly extensible text editor and development environment that has maintained a dedicated user community for decades, with many developers creating and maintaining packages for it.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Apr 26, 2026 at 02:51 PM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10