Bozhidar Batsov over at (think) recently loaded the current development version of Emacs 24 and gives us a peek at its features. The post is a very nice look at what’s coming in the next version of Emacs and well worth a look by all Emacs fans. His writeup is fairly comprehensive—at least for the features he covers—so I won’t try to summarize it here; you should go read it yourself.
Batsov doesn’t say whether he is using it for day-to-day work or just playing around with it. I remember using the Emacs 23 development version long before it was officially released and never had any problems. It would be nice to know if Emacs 24 is at that state yet. I’m very happy with Emacs 23 so I don’t feel the need to jump into the new version before it’s completely baked but some of you may be waiting for one of those new features and feel differently. Be sure to let us know if you do adapt it for day-to-day use and how it works out.
Update: Asked and answered. Batsov comments that he has been using Emacs 24 for day-to-day work for about a month and that it’s rock solid. Anyone who can’t wait for those new features should give it a try.