# Corfu

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Corfu and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** An Emacs package that shows inline completion popups at point, praised for making context and completions easy to reach while editing.

## What people warn about

- Some find it no longer essential (1 comments): "which are supremely nice but perhaps no longer essential" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434528))
- Hard to get satisfying results (1 comments): "tried corfu and completion-preview several times but didn't get something I'm happy with from it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597050))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Evil mode for Emacs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/evil-mode.md): 39 recommend
- [TRAMP for Emacs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tramp.md): 25 recommend
- [SLIME](https://hackerapproved.com/p/slime.md): 19 recommend
- [Vertico](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vertico.md): 18 recommend
- [Eglot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/eglot.md): 16 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Corfu", https://hackerapproved.com/p/corfu/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).