book VS melpa

Are you saying that this book is a hallucination? And this? And all of this?

4) C++: it’s often overly complicated for many projects. Use with caution, although it’s definitely useful in very large projects. But there’s a reason Rust is increasingly popular for embedded — here’s an engineer’s view.

If you come from the embedded C community then maybe something like Phil Oppermann's writing an OS in Rust series. There's also the embedded Rust book and the embedded Rust working group github that has a lot of resources.

I genuinely don't know why you would say that and I know you were talking about microcontrollers

The rust embedded book: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/

It’s not a job, but I’m guessing you would like this book: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/

There's a page on the Rust website on embedded systems. Given that you are already familiar with embedded programming, you can probably start with the embedded rust book.

Watch the new pull requests to melpa: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pulls

(require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t) (package-initialize) (package-install 'use-package) (use-package exec-path-from-shell :ensure t :config (exec-path-from-shell-initialize)))

MELPA is definitely the biggest package archive, probably mostly on account of the lower barrier to entry compared to GNU ELPA (maybe the difference would have been less pronounced if NonGNU ELPA had been there from the beginning, but one can only speculate). MELPA has its own requirements for packages, but indeed copyright assignment to the FSF is not one of them.

I would suggest to start at reading the manual first. Then I would recommend reading the Melpa guidance, even if you do not plan to contribute your package to Melpa, since it contains very useful info about linting, writing your code etc.

The mxtoolbox link checks for SMTP blacklisting.. People won't be able to send mail from host with the IP address 178.128.185.1(which is the melpa.org webserver, not their mailserver, so everything's fine there).

Xah asked for his packages to be removed from MELPA a while back: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/7755

Observe that package.el compile files when they are installed, and they are not compiled in any particular order (actually whatever directory-files returns, which is what OS returns). So if you have multiple files that depend on each other, it is something to think of. There are also some guidelines on how to structure your project on Melpa.