I just learned that new Macs don't come with Emacs preinstalled

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  • mg

    Micro (GNU) Emacs-like text editor ❤️ public-domain

  • EDIT: to partially answer my own question. I see that starting with macOS 10.15 (Catalina), Gnu Emacs was replaced with mg. Catalina was released in October 2019. I don't know anything about Mg but it seems like a neat project.

  • build-emacs-macos

    Build script for emacs and macos

  • Though I don't love Ventura, running Emacs on MacOS has never really been a problem for me. It's also very easy to build Emacs. You can use this shell script if you like: https://github.com/mclear-tools/build-emacs-macos. I also list there a bunch of other build scripts from other users. Just as easy as homebrew really, with a lot more control (e.g. you can build whatever version of Emacs you like, at least back to 22).

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • homebrew-emacs-plus

    Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

  • You only need this: https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

  • uemacs

    Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons

  • Looks like he uses a thing called uEmacs.

  • HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  • https://brew.sh/ - there's an entire world of open source software, one command line away!

  • WorkOS

    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.

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