Top 4 Go Emac Projects

build-emacs-for-macos

38 452 6.5 Go

Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.

Project mention: Is pgtk for MacOS worth it? | /r/emacs | 2023-06-18

I built emacs from source, native comp, a few months ago and recently heard about pgtk. Is this worth it (for more smoothness, better user experience) on MacOS? I saw this thread: https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos/issues/45 where it was mentioned that you have to turn off the MacOS specific flag, so I’m not sure if it’s more harm than good, and what benefit it may serve. Anyone have experience optimizing their emacs on MacOS as much as possible? I basically run native comp vanilla emacs with only about 100 lines in my init file, which I byte compile (I’m not sure if the init file byte compilation helps? It seems like even though packages get compiled down natively, going into the native code folder (alongside byte compilations) , init.el doesn’t have an option for it).

go-org

2 335 4.5 Go

Org mode parser with html & pretty printed org rendering. also shitty static site generator.

Project mention: Reading org files. | /r/orgmode | 2023-06-02

Hugo parses and renders org mode files and I believe it uses https://github.com/niklasfasching/go-org

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
emacs-builds

26 305 7.2 Go

Self-contained Emacs.app builds for macOS, with native-compilation support.

Project mention: Thinking about buying a macbook, does Emacs work well? | /r/emacs | 2023-07-08

[2] https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds (doesn't currently have > M1 builds)

pimacs

3 25 8.7 Go

A partial, experimental implementation of an Elisp interpreter written in Go

Project mention: The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-16

Two projects that may be of interest, related to this topic:
- Rune (https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune) - A re-implementation of Emacs but in Rust (like Remacs, but actively developed)
- Pimacs (https://github.com/federicotdn/pimacs) - Same, but using Go (created by me, but developed in a very slow pace)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).