Emacs 26.1 is out! There's a slew of new features, most exciting (to me) is the new elisp thread support! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00765.html
There's a good comment from HN on the zen of Emacs too.
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I think you could build an interesting IDE with a tiny embedded LLM in addition to the usual tooling.
Features like 'extract method' would be much nicer if an LLM could provide a name. Choosing a good name is virtually impossible from just a typed AST.
For hobby projects, I really like software where I can do small features or tweaks. Sometimes I don't have time for anything more substantial.
Website projects are great for this. Are there other areas?
Today I learnt that Racket *intentionally* doesn't have a traditional REPL workflow. The authors were concerned about students not understanding the state between the current session and the code on disk.
(Arguably Jupyter has some of these features now.)