'Best' Emacs port for Mac - early 2021 edition?

• homebrew-emacsmacport

  59 1,643 6.7 Ruby

  Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager

If you use `(server-start)` and not `emacs --daemon` then `emacs-mac` has slightly better integration with MacOS (see here: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/issues/52), otherwise `emacs-plus` should be enough for everybody.

• build-emacs-for-macos

  38 452 6.5 Go

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

I currently use gccemacs on my Mac, compiled using https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos/. It works but it's not super-stable, and the performance gains on macOS are not too spectacular.

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• homebrew-emacs-plus

  68 2,184 8.1 Ruby

  Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

Checkout emacs-plus (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus) and emacs-mac (https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview)

• dotfiles

  7 21 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Discontinued CLI, Emacs, Hammerspoon (by overvale)

You might also be interested in my personal "minimum" configuration. Basically, it's what I wish I had started with.

• osa

  1 18 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs Lisp to Open Scripting Architecture (AppleScript / JavaScript) bridge

• nix

  372 10,879 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

It would be an answer if it was simple to install nix on macos. Instead, it's a long story of issues and frustration. Only thanks to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4289 it becomes viable.

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