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The Emacsification of Software

by A Final Ward sockpuppet.org published 2026-05-127 min read

Everything looks like Emacs now: personal, complicated, idiosyncratic, and shrink-wrapped around exactly what you want it to do. Does shipping software even make sense in the long run?

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