Hi, I'm Dhruv. I was interested in using Emacs for a long time (mostly for org-mode), but didn't want to run Linux as my daily-driver, so never really bothered. I recently managed to solve that problem by running Emacs in WSL2, and writing a little speechserver/shim to output speech to nvda (not opensource for now, barely worth calling a script, want to get it more in shape before I publish).
I'm having fun so far. Org-mode is indeed pretty good, the "everything is text" philosophy is awesome, and I've started to play around with elisp--the entire thing feels like a playground, and it's made me more excited about computing than I have been in a while.
It seems like there isn't really a chatserver/something where the community gathers, which is a shame. I'd love to get in touch with people who actively use Emacs for professional math/writing/programming work. (I guess maybe just reply to this email, if you're one of them?)
I don't necessarily envision transitioning to Emacs for my programming needs (vscode works well enough, it's what most other people use so collaboration is much simpler, and the time tradeoff doesn't feel worth it for now) but for scheme/clojure/lisp-ish languages generally, Emacs is probably the best thing I can use. (Lisp-ish languages in vscode aren't great, and I think Emacspeak (maybe with slime?) can probably give me more semantic information.)
Anyhow, hi, hello. looking forward to getting to know people here, it'll likely be fun.
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