etaf
Component, state and application runtime for building Emacs text applications
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GITHUB · launched Oct 12, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 77%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- core
- emacs
- framework
- reactive
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Partial The UI is buildable, but a real framework needs a layout engine with cascade, flex and grid, and incremental rendering inside Emacs Lisp. Those are substantial pieces that vibe coding alone won't reliably produce.
What it would actually take: A real version would be an Emacs Lisp library that builds a DOM-like component tree, computes CSS cascade and box/flex/grid layout over character cells, and diffs the output to update only changed regions. The layout and incremental-rendering core is the hard part and requires solid understanding of Emacs display internals and layout algorithms. The applications and games built on top are comparatively straightforward.
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Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
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