Andrea Corallo presented the current status and future developments of the Emacs Lisp native compiler coming in Emacs 28. The native compilation feature allows automatic compilation and execution of Elisp as native code using libgccjit for ahead-of-time compilation with in-depth optimization.

John Wiegley provided an update on Emacs development and what was coming in Emacs 28, highlighting that native compilation would make some Emacs code two to four times faster depending on the type of Lisp being run.

Stefan Monnier discussed Emacs maintenance including tree-sitter integration and whether it could enable paredit-like functionality for non-Lisp languages.

Ahmed Khaled presented on using org-roam and org-roam-bibtex to take linked, searchable notes on research papers, covering reading and discovering papers, asking questions, writing notes, and storing information.

This talk explored the rising interest in Org mode as a nicely designed lightweight markup language that benefits users beyond GNU/Emacs, with many tools and services supporting Org mode syntax documents.

Protesilaos Stavrou (38:24) outlined his transition to GNU/Linux and his experiences becoming an Emacs user and package maintainer, exploring how Emacs empowered his software freedom.

David Wilson of SystemCrafters delivered the closing talk, examining the enduring relevance of Emacs in an ever-changing landscape of text editors.

Sacha Chua provided a quick overview of Emacs community highlights since the last conference, covering Emacs 28, Org mode 9.5, Magit major release, completion packages, Embark, tree-sitter, collaborative editing, graphical experiments, and community developments.

This talk presented a vision for code editing where operations map directly to the primitives of the language itself, using a novel combination of the tree-sitter parser with an embedded logic programming DSL (miniKanren via reazon) to power syntax tree generation.