eval-exec/neomacs
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NEO Emacs (WIP): GPU powered Emacs written in Rust with a modern display engine. Aiming for modern design & multi-threaded Elisp, 10x performance, zero-pause concurrent GC and 100% Emacs compatibility.
10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 4 stories, 6 comments · first 2026-02-07 · latest 2026-10-28
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…due to unattended agents running wild. [0] https://github.com/ozanvos/emacs-webkit-color-picker [1] https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
comment by osener · 2026-10-28 · in Emacs Turns 50 -
GPLv3: https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs/blob/main/COPYING
comment by untilted · 2026-09-29 · in Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs -
Have you looked at the code before rendering judgment? It seems pretty readable and well-structured: https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs/tree/main/crates/neomac... Emacs, meanwhile, has a 50,000 line file that contains its display and…
comment by rayiner · 2026-09-14 · in NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust -
…gaps If coding with LLMs taught me anything, it’s that this last 5% can be “load-bearing”. [1]: https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs#status
comment by thih9 · 2026-09-14 · in NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust -
…rewrite the elisp layer and all C code in Rust, incorporating GPU rendering etc along the way, see https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
comment by joshjob42 · 2026-06-25 · in I built a GPU back end for Emacs