The world needs some cross between Processing, HTML, and Google Docs.
Processing: A programming environment with lots of helpful libraries
HTML: a simple display model that can be viewed everywhere
Docs: an underlying sharing mechanism
There are just too many core problems that need to be solved over and over by each app. It's more than just getting the right library as there are services involved.
@scottjenson An alternate reality version of this already exists - it's called #Emacs. 😉 That said, I'm not saying that everybody should use Emacs. But TBH I think a Smalltalk-like vision of highly configurable libraries/components that can be easily orchestrated together instead of our current situation of app islands (recall your blog post on why apps must die) is really where we need to go. Perhaps revisiting the goals of OpenDoc for the 21st century? Made an earlier related toot on why iPadOS as a software ecosystem is so stalled. Why can't the iPad really be a DynaBook?
Looking forward to setting up my used #thinkpad with #linuxmint next week. Looking for recos for easy syncing, mainly for my #emacs and #orgmode stuff. What have you used that you could recommend? I do have GDrive working well on my Windows machines, so could go that route,, though not familiar with how to do that on linux. Thanks!
@itsfoss Use Semantic Tokens from the language server for fontification in #Emacs. And I am working on it.
(Remember: those who ask take the risk to get an answer.)
As a long time Vimmer, I have recently started using Emacs out of sheer curiosity. I chose Doom Emacs as it has evil-mode enabled by default, and do not want to dive down the rabbit hole of configuring the editor from scratch (at least, not yet!)....
We have enough funds on RDE's opencollective, so we can setup a CI and substitute server and maybe some other infrastructure/project-related services in foreseable future.
Thank you very much everyone for help and support! <3
@nixCraft You have the #Cocoa text system’s key bindings to thank for so many #Emacs-compatible keyboard shortcuts working in #macOS text boxes and documents.
Reminds me of years ago when a new developer (switching from C++ to #Perl) joined a team I was on. We asked him if he preferred #emacs or #vim. He replied, "nano."
@davep
If you'd like to give Research Software Engineering a try (i.e. collaborate with researchers in any field to make better software for a more reproducible science) we have an open senior position at #UCL_ARC closing next week https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=21450
Our salaries are not huge, but our positions are permanent!! (sadly not common in academia)
Also, we are only a ~10% of #emacs users in the team 😁 @astrojuanlu
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I think the main problem that I have here is that Mastodon is so smoothly integrated into Emacs, which is the software tool around which all of the knowledge and information that I accumulate on my computer is organized. So I spend way too much time just reading and cataloging stuff, and talking with people, on the Internet without having to leave the comfort of my text editor, and if I am not careful I can spend hours and hours doing it without even noticing time pass.
With Emacs is so easy to navigate Mastodon, so easy to create personal, off-line catalogs of posts, easy to bookmark things, easy to reply to people with your bookmarks, easy to compose blog articles incorporating all of that information, easy to create lists of news articles, people, servers, apps, all in one place with a single piece of software.
Yeah, so far, that is my only complaint about the Mastodon.el client, it lets you travel near light-speed down all of the rabbit holes effortlessly. The thing is, these rabbit holes are, for all intents and purposes, infinite. You may be able to navigate at light speed, that doesn't mean you actually ever really make progress toward the end of the tunnel.
To all evil-mode users, how do you work with vterm?
As a long time Vimmer, I have recently started using Emacs out of sheer curiosity. I chose Doom Emacs as it has evil-mode enabled by default, and do not want to dive down the rabbit hole of configuring the editor from scratch (at least, not yet!)....