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

> 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 :-/

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.

Seems fully vibe coded :(

Why not... Lem?

Watch demo button on the website doesn't work.

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

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

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?

Does the "Watch Demo" button do anything?

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?

I've gone from being blown away by what LLMs could do with web design (I mean, it's impressive, especially what it does purely without vision...) to wishing it couldn't. Everything has become "same"y in a way that is hard to describe, kinda like AI generated images. Panda riding a unicorn? Impressive the first time. 1000 uncanny piss filter Pixar images later, you are begging for mediocrity to come back.

Not that the README is any better. It's just a long string of Claudisms. Fuck.

"Don't you ever get bored of pointing out that everything is AI slop?" Yes. I am very bored of pointing this out. I'll let you know when getting bored of it fixes the problem. I'm sorry if you think slop that will likely be unmaintained in a month and can be done even better by next month's model releases anyways is worth taking up a massive chunk of the HN frontpage forever, but I just don't agree.