NEO Emacs
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Recommended as a GPU-accelerated, Rust-based fork of Emacs, with people praising its ambition and out-of-box config compatibility. Critics say the website looks vibecoded and has broken buttons.
Recommended as a GPU-accelerated, Rust-based fork of Emacs, with people praising its ambition and out-of-box config compatibility. Critics say the website looks vibecoded and has broken buttons.
24 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 13
- approval share
- 46%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Ambitious Rust and GPU rewrite of Emacs
“aiming to rewrite the elisp layer and all C code in Rust, incorporating GPU rendering etc along the way”
Comment from 25 Jun 2026 in “I built a GPU back end for Emacs” “this is exactly the kind of mad-science evolution Emacs needs”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust” “However, it's extremely enticing”
Comment from 26 Sep 2026 in “Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs” Readable, well-structured code; promising future
“neomacs will undoubtedly become excellent software”
Comment from 16 Sep 2026 in “AI is breaking our proxies for expertise” “It seems pretty readable and well-structured”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Looks vibecoded or Claude-generated
“even if it does smell of vibe-coding based on the README”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust” “It's hard to take this seriously when it has wonky Claude website design.”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust” “the webpage fills vibecoded in the worst way tbh”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust” - Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust”
Website buttons and links don't work
“the "performance" link at the top also doesn't lead anywhere”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust” “Some buttons on the front page don't even work.”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “AI is breaking our proxies for expertise” “Watch demo button on the website doesn't work.”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust” - Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust”
- Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust”
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| Visual Studio Code | 485 | 547 | 47% | 12 | 2 yrs13 owners | — |
| NEO EmacsThis page | 11 | 13 | 46% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
24 of the 27 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“suffering from never ending scope creep”
“However, it's extremely enticing”
“I'm working on using neomacs's wasm build to replace this landing page”
“it can works, but still have some incomplete places”
“neomacs will undoubtedly become excellent software”
“Some buttons on the front page don't even work.”
“I don't quite get why I'd want this without seeing some evidence”
“So far, all of my configuration and packages have just worked out of the box.”
“this is exactly the kind of mad-science evolution Emacs needs”
“this is not a great project for learning Emacs as it currently exists”
“It seems pretty readable and well-structured”
“This landing page made sure I lost interest in this attempt.”
“Lost me with broken "Watch Demo" button”
“The watch demo button doesn't work for me”
“why one wouldn't just go canonical GNU Emacs rather than some fresh "revolutionary" Emacs”
“Appears to be further along than anybody's ever gotten with a multi-threaded emacs port”
“It's just a long string of Claudisms.”
“even if it does smell of vibe-coding based on the README”
“the "performance" link at the top also doesn't lead anywhere”
“the webpage fills vibecoded in the worst way tbh”
“It's hard to take this seriously when it has wonky Claude website design.”
“Watch demo button on the website doesn't work.”
“aiming to rewrite the elisp layer and all C code in Rust, incorporating GPU rendering etc along the way”
“but it doesn't go anywhere either”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.