That’s one of the best articles on the potential issues with relying too much on #AI / #LLMs for programming https://blog.fogus.me/meta/LLMe.html
The #Clojure community has always been fascinating with its depth and thoughtfulness!
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I jotted down some thoughts on the future of editors like #Emacs and #Vim in the age of AI https://batsov.com/articles/2026/03/09/emacs-and-vim-in-the-age-of-ai/
I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts on the subject as well.
I'm happy to report that my port of the #Catppuccin themes for #Emacs is now available on MELPA (under the name batppuccin, as there's also the "official" port under the catppuccin name)
https://melpa.org/#/batppuccin
I hope you'll like it!
Another prominent #Emacs hacker got seduced by the Dark Side https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/
I'm happy to report that my #Emacs port of the famous Tokyo Night theme(s) is now available on MELPA https://melpa.org/#/tokyo-night
Enjoy!
The annotated #Ruby 4 changelog by @zverok@twiukraine.com is truly fantastic https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html
I wish every programming language had such a high-quality resource! Well done, Viktor!
One of the biggest problems with Tree-sitter in editors are the constant changes that break something
Here's a discussion about how some changes in version 0.26 broke #Emacs tree-sitter support https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/4968
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@plexus @sanityinc I've removed the red color used for the mismatched parens from the rainbow-delimiters faces. The updated version will be on MELPA in an hour or so.
Lots of good tips on using effectively repeat-mode in #Emacs https://karthinks.com/software/it-bears-repeating/
Seems I've missed some #neovim drama…
As an aside - probably it'd best to bundle tree-sitter queries with the file plugins for the various file types instead of having all of them in a single plugin. (but I assume there are some historical reasons for the current state of affairs)
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@plexus @sanityinc I do, but it's totally possible that I didn't pay attention to this. Let me take a closer look and this and I'll get back to you.
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@sanityinc Thanks! Took me a while to come up with it! :D
I've reworked (and extended) neocaml's huge README into a nice documentation site, powered by MkDocs and Material. Check out https://neocaml.org/ and let me know if you like it and if you feel that something needs to be improved there.
#Mozilla seems to be betting more and more on AI. Here's their latest product https://www.thunderbolt.io/
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@tzz Probably it's growing pains, but on the other hand - the project is very widely used at this point and there are still breaking changes... I feel there's some disconnect between how the maintainers see tree-sitter and how the users see it (and that's reflected in the discussion I shared).
We often criticize other people for not learning from their mistakes, but I'm the type of person who still watches every new Alien and Predator installment, knowing full well they'll be shit. Just like all the installments after Aliens and Predator II.
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@oantolin Yeah, turned out that the new theme I'm using there has overridden the feed settings. I think I managed to fix it now.
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@oantolin Hmm, I'll investigate!
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@oantolin metaredux.com (it was meant to replace batsov.com, but after a while I changed my mind and tried to find different purposes for both)
I overdid the blogs back in the day. :D
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@oantolin Yeah, that's a fair point. Poor choice of words on my part - I'll update that.
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@Ardubal I don’t think this is as clear cut as you portray it to be. I understand very well how LLMs work and what are the caveats related to their usage, and this doesn't change the fact you can leverage them to produce useful (and good quality code). AI is still just a tool, and the outcomes depend vastly on how you're using the tool. I agree that AI agents can't innovate, but in practice for most tasks you don't really need to innovate anyways.
But I don't really want to discuss AI's role in programming, but the role of Emacs and vim in a world that's increasingly dominated by AI-assisted coding.
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@Ardubal I get your point, but how is this related to power editors like Emacs/Vim? The point of my article is the future of programming and its relationship to the future of editors used primarily for programming. Perhaps that wasn't clear, though.
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@oantolin Hmm, I thought that was the case already. Which RSS feed exactly are you referring to? (as I have 3 different blogs :D )
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A new #RuboCop release is out with a TON of bug-fixes https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop/releases/tag/v1.86.1
Enjoy!
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@plexus @sanityinc I totally get this! I was using almost exclusively Zenburn (and infrequently Solarized) for over a decade. But recently I felt like I needed to freshen up a bit and I liked both themes from my experiments with Vim (where they are super popular).
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@katafrakt Looking forward to your feedback once you get to trying it out!
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@HaraldKi I get your sentiment, but I think the performance considerations will always make something like tree-sitter appealing to many people.
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@tzz Exactly! When a project is super widely used the version number doesn't really matter.
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@pointlessone@status.pointless.one I haven't seen Badlands, but I think Prey was pretty derivative as far as sequels go. It wasn't bad, though, just more of the same.
I didn't like much Alien: Romulus. It was so forgettable that I barely remember it by now.
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@pointlessone@status.pointless.one I get your point, but I just think at some point it becomes pointless to just re-heat the same dish. That's not a problem specific to Predator, though - most of the movie franchises are like that. E.g. in Alien movies the computers and the interiors of the ships look the same they did in 1979, which I find laughable at times.