Neomacs
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Apr 29, 2026first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It seems pretty readable and well-structured”
“I think a stronger basis for that is probably the Neomacs project”
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Caveats and dissent
“this last 5% can be “load-bearing””
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I'm busy on the development of neomacs”
Threads where it came up
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- Why Janet? 1 mention
- Zed is 1.0 1 mention
Also written as NEO Emacs, neomacs. Data: neomacs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“looks like its suffering from never ending scope creep”
It's ironic that a community that uses a program originally developed at the MIT AI Lab, extensible in the traditional programming language of AI, would hate AI. Richard Stallman prefers to call AI "Pretend Intelligence". https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/PRETEND-INTELLIGENCE.md Richard Stallman proposes the term Pretend Intelligence (PI) for what the industry calls “AI”: systems that pretend to b
“It seems pretty readable and well-structured”
“this last 5% can be “load-bearing””
“I think a stronger basis for that is probably the Neomacs project”
“Hopefully Neomacs”