And yet, the Emacs community appears more vibrant than ever with many AI-assisted/-related projects (ghostty.el and agent-shell.el, among others) thriving and bringing a fresh wind into the ecosystem!
I think it is reasonable to have a higher (or at least, different) standard for Emacs core than for packages.
I also feel compelled to say that I personally think a lot of what has brought more energy into Emacs world recently is treesit and eglot becoming widely available in distributions, neither of which involved any AI
And yet, the Emacs community appears more vibrant than ever with many AI-assisted/-related projects (ghostty.el and agent-shell.el, among others) thriving and bringing a fresh wind into the ecosystem!
I think it is reasonable to have a higher (or at least, different) standard for Emacs core than for packages.
I also feel compelled to say that I personally think a lot of what has brought more energy into Emacs world recently is treesit and eglot becoming widely available in distributions, neither of which involved any AI
These are orthogonal:
- there are people who do not want LLM contributions being accepted into emacs itself (legal, maintainers burnout, etc reasons)
- there are projects (such as gptel, pi-coding-agent) that enable LLM usage from within emacs
Both may be true at the same time.