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Comment by PaulHoule | Hacker News Reader

Are they even coming out with any new software? I remember GNU being big in the 1990s and I know a new version of gawk came out recently, but it seems the center of gravity of “free software” (as in beer) has moved in the direction of the Apache foundation (so many data-related projects it is a “big data” problem to keep track of them all), Github, etc.

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Apache only provides organizational infrastructure for OSS projects, the foundation doesn’t drive the development and maintenance proper. Apache projects are usually either heavily supported by companies, or else on life support if not dead.

GNU Guix (package manager and OS distro) is a pretty big project, that's fairly recent.

Well GNU Guix is publicly against the current structure of the FSF and especially RMS.[1] So Guix as an example is not really a great defense of FSF and the GNU Project's operating structure.

1: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

Thanks, you're right (I hadn't come across that before)

all of the classic packages could use younger people involved. Its not an accident that you read about young talented people here spending a year or three on some private project.

Emacs 29 has just issued a pre-release. Using it now.

I switched to vim a long time ago but I am definitely impressed with the changes in each new major version of emacs including this one.

I'm a diehard vimmer using Emacs (Evil-mode), and I can say the same thing. I'm very impressed with the changes in Neovim over the past few years.

Being one of the oldest GNU projects it's impressive how quickly Emacs is developing and not only that, the pace is accelerating! LSP and tree-sitter support are now built-in to Emacs and integrating them took less than a year to do.

Eli Zaretskii and Lars Ingebrigtsen are doing amazing work as maintainers.

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