I'm developing NEO Emacs (WIP): https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
Reminds me of emacs-ng and others, hope yours will work nice, emacs needs some care indeed
This looks crazy and mindblowingly awesome.
Nice! Where does the 10x speed-up come from?
I don't know what neo stands for, but I think youβre actually creating Emax π
It's still on neomacs's very early stage of development. GPU rendering, a modern architecture, and future inline JIT work. The speedup comes from the cumulative effect of many improvements across the stack.
Yes, Neomacs is developed using an Agentic Engineering workflow. The high commits count mostly are unit tests and integration tests. (since NEO Emacs want 100% compatibility with GNU/Emacs. like neovim 100% compatible with legacy vim)
As the NEO Emacs continues to go through development, testing, and refinement cycles, I expect both its quality and performance to improve significantly.
Given the project started in 2026 and has 13k commits, I assume the work is predominantly done by an LLM? I think a disclaimer is warranted in that case.