emacs-ng/emacs-ng

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1808 stars · 75 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

emacs-ng is a fork of GNU Emacs that adds a native layer with Deno's JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, async I/O, threading, and Mozilla's GPU-based WebRender rendering engine. It aims to modernize Emacs while keeping full Elisp compatibility and introspectability.

Use cases

• extend emacs with javascript or typescript instead of elisp
• gpu-accelerated emacs rendering with webrender
• run async i/o and threads inside emacs
• try a modernized emacs fork built on rust
• embed a deno runtime in a text editor

When to choose

• you want to script Emacs in JavaScript/TypeScript
• you need async I/O or threading natively in Emacs
• you want to experiment with GPU-based rendering in Emacs

When to avoid

• you need a battle-tested, stable Emacs for daily work
• you rely on packages that assume vanilla Emacs behavior
• you don't want to track a fork that merges upstream weekly

Facets

application · maturity active

editor concurrency graphics interpreter text-editors developer-tools graphics windows rust cpp emacs deno typescript webrender gpu-acceleration fork elisp async-io linux macos

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