I have officially retired from Emacs

Re:I have officially retired from Emacs by schmooser on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:05PM (#47938151)

I tried Elfeed2 immediately after the announcement, well, it's nowhere near the experience of elfeed in Emacs. Elfeed2 doesn't load content for most of my feeds, elfeed does. I also integrated elfeed-tube, which shows previews of videos and their transcripts, making it no-brainer to get a summary without watching the whole video.

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Re:I have officially retired from Emacs by Avamander on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:39PM (#47939504)

> I tried Elfeed2 immediately after the announcement, well, it's nowhere near the experience of elfeed in Emacs.

Isn't that kinda expected with a new software release, that it doesn't have a 100% feature parity?

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Re:I have officially retired from Emacs by hegstal on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:45PM (#47939595)

On the other hand, given there is prior art in Elfeed, why wouldn't it rapidly converge on feature parity?

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Re:I have officially retired from Emacs by Pay08 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:20PM (#47940124)

Probably because it's closer to a reimplementation than anything else, and in Emacs you can use libraries with much less friction than in self-contained languages.

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Re:I have officially retired from Emacs by rgoulter on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:26PM (#47943110)

My understanding of the context is the author is no longer using Emacs, and is very excited about the productivity from AI.

My experience with LLM technologies is it does make generating the code a really quick part. It may be reasonable to take much more time to specify things up front (rather than emergently as you would by hand). -- I mean, if you've got a well crafted description of what you want, you'll be able to get a working program MUCH quicker with an LLM, today, compared to writing it out by hand.

Would it really be surprising/shocking if an LLM was able to rewrite (most) features from an existing software, to a new software?

It seems like the reality today is, we've gone from a maintained software in a niche ecosystem with happy users, to a more fragmented one where everyone has an LLM write their own half-baked one.

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Re:I have officially retired from Emacs by internet_points on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:42AM (#47945699)

I don't use elfeed, but installed elfeed-tube just for youtube-with-transcripts :)

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