Hey! EmacsConf just concluded and it was a really awesome one this year. A lot of interesting talks. It was a lot of fun interacting with everyone during the event. For folks who where there, “hi again!”.

If you have read my previous blogs, you might be already aware that I have been playing around a lot with tree-sitter in Emacs. And so, this year for EmacsConf I decided to talk about the same. It was my fist talk at EmacsConf and was really smooth experience :D. Thanks a lot to the organizers, mainly Sacha Chua (https://sachachua.com/) and Leo Vivier (http://zaeph.net/) for helping me through all of it. Also thanks to Bhavin Gandhi (https://geeksocket.in/) whom I’ve bounced off a lot of ideas.

In case you are interested, you can checkout my talk at https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/treesitter/ (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/treesitter/) . The recording, transcript and Q&A should be available there. The recording is available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZPR_SC9LzE) as well if you wanna go that route.

I’m still to catch up on all the talks, but from the ones that I have seen, these are the ones that I personally found useful:

General # (https://blog.meain.io/2022/emacsconf-2022/#general)

• The Emacs Buddy initiative (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/buddy/): Seems like a interesting way to get in touch with folks who have similar interests, I should probably consider signing up for this :D.

• Attending and organizing Emacs meetups (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/meetups/): Lot of great insights into conducting Emacs meetups and guides on how one can attend/create one.

• Results of the 2022 Emacs Survey (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/survey/): Great set of insights in to how different trends related to Emacs looks like. Looking forward to more analysis around the data.

• Org workflows for developers (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/workflows/): While I don’t personally use Org, the idea here seems pretty interesting.

Development # (https://blog.meain.io/2022/emacsconf-2022/#development)

• Emacs should become a Wayland compositor (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/wayland/): This seems like a great next step after EXWM.

• rde Emacs introduction (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/rde/): I’ve been following some of his development on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@abcdw).

• Getting detached from Emacs (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/detached/): Looks like a great alternative to run servers and other long running processes from Emacs.

• Top 10 reasons why you should be using Eshell (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/eshell/): I’ve been trying to switch to eshell and this shows a lot of interesting features of eshell and how having lisp available improves a lot of things.

• Emacs was async before async was cool (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/workflows/): Neat intro to working with network calls in Emacs in an async manner

• The Wheels on D-Bus (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/dbus/): Loved the idea of being able to use D-Bus from within Emacs to interact with more of the system