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I started the Hacker's guide on the emacs wiki many years back. I think this doc was much needed.
I'm dreading the "I told ya so" from relatives.
Bellard wrote an emacs-type text editor, with full html rendering support, Unicode, X11 GUI, ... in the early 2000s!
I want to debug custom kernel filesystem issues on a 96 CPUs machine. My benchmark is building the Linux Kernel def config with make -j96. I have tried ftrace before but it's making everything 100x slower...
And if you think IRC is too old for the modern world take a look at matrix or xmpp.
How did we let discord take over is a mystery to me, or rather a tragedy.
1) The academy doesn't make laws, they just make recommendations that anyone is free to follow or ignore.
2) there are laws regarding the amount of french-spoken media being broadcasted but nothing is said about which word is accepted or not you can use as much foreign slang as you want.
3) the academy does not make an official dictionary. There is no official dictionary. There are multiple private entities editing dictionaries. These companies have their own authority on what makes it in the dictionary.
3) the academy suggest new words when none exist in French to avoid using too many English ones. Again it's perfectly fine to ignore them if you don't like them. Some works (eg logiciel for software) some don't (eg courriel for email).
Other french speaking nations have their own academy and that's also fine. There are no academy wars lol.
I'm also surprised at the reactions regarding Quebecers. Most french people are delighted to hear that accent. It's very rare to hear it in France. We are mostly used to accents from north and sub-saharian African regions, or bordering neighbors. When I fist heard it I couldn't help but say I loved their accent. In a genuine, wholesome way... It is sad that it's often taken the wrong way.
(I mean you don't have to obviously, but I think it's a good remainder for all of us that Emacs wouldn't exist without it. I've just bought a shirt myself!)