I recently opened my feed to discover this post from Chris Wellons. The TL;DR is that Wellons, after 20 years, is abandoning Emacs for Vim. Folks do that, of course, but Wellons is special because he’s been a prolific author of Emacs packages including the absolute best RSS reader, Elfeed that I use everyday and depend on for my Irreal research.
Over the years, I’ve interacted with Wellons several times and always found him to be personable, engaged, and shockingly smart. He’s exactly what you want in an interlocutor: informed but not inextricably bound to his opinions. He was always interested in the truth and willing to be persuaded by facts.
By now, this has been all over the Internet and Sacha has already covered it on Emacs News but I wanted to add my appreciation for Wellons and everything he’s done for the Emacs community. I and the rest of our community can only hope that he returns from the dark side but in any event, we wish him well and thank him for all he’s done for us.
In the meantime, he still has some packages in need of a new maintainer. There’s a list on his post. If you’re interested, get in touch with him.