csharp-mode in Emacs git master - a personal list of gratitude and thanks

["Jostein Kjønigsen" <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>]

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Hey everyone!

After years and years as a third-party mode, I'm absolutely stoked to 
see (a) csharp-mode finally mainlined into Emacs.

Sorry about the "long form" for this email, but for me this completes an 
8 year journey as the "main" semi-lone steward of the Emacs C# project, 
and for me this feels very much like a very personal project finally 
finding a new, proper home.

That we are here today is a big achievement, and I really want to call 
out everyone I know and remember who helped us get here.

First of all I want to thank *Dylan R. E. Moonfire* for the original 
csharp-mode implementantation. This is where it all started, way back. 
Thanks Dylan!

I also want to thank *Dino Chiesa* who kept maintaining it for several 
years, until around 2011.

In 2014 when Emacs 24.4 was released, the old code broke and I took over 
as a new maintainer. In that regard, I want to thank everyone who helped 
me out fixing and improving csharp-mode. Contributions big and small: 
They were all welcome and appreciated!

For that early period I want to extend a special thanks to *Vasailij 
Schneidermann* (or perhaps you know him as wasamasa). He was always 
eager to help and provided much needed support. As far as I can tell, he 
wasn't just there for me. He was there for the entire Emacs-community 
and seemingly still is. A hero and living legend!

I also want to thank *Alan MacKenzie* for his never endring patience 
when we were stuck in some cc-mode troubles we couldn't dig ourselves 
out of and when we were using cc-mode in undocumented ways we shouldn't 
be doing. Clearly a gentleman of the olde school. You have my utmost 
respects!

*Yuan Fu* obviously deserves a great big thanks, for making it possible 
to land our new tree-sitter based implementation, which currently is the 
one I feel closest attached to as of now. As such I really also should 
mention *Tuấn-Anh Nguyễn*, who really pioneered getting tree-sitter and 
Emacs being into being one thing, before this was even considered 
possible to do in Emacs core, prior to Yuan Fu's efforts.

But a particular, special thanks goes out to a single individual who 
over the last few years have helped csharp-mode in ways and amounts I 
didn't imagine possible.

Listing up "only" his major contributions to csharp-mode still makes for 
a long list. This person contributed by among other things:

  * creating a new clean-room cc-mode based implementation, which could
    replace the old one, fixed bugs and now made it possible to even
    consider mainlining it into Emacs core, for the benefit of all
    Emacs-users.
  * for being one of the first Emacs-users out there trying out getting
    tree-sitter based major-modes in Emacs a real thing. He authored the
    first tree-sitter-based Emacs-mode I know of.
  * for pushing me into trying to make a new csharp-mode based on Yuan
    Fu's tree-sitter work in Emacs core, and then further improving on it.
  * for working closely with everyone in Emacs-devel to make sure our
    latest work was up to the standards you guys expect, and making sure
    it could eventually get merged.

I'm ofcourse talking about *Theodor Thornhill*.

Theodor: You better believe I'm taking this merge as an early 
Christmas-present! Thank you for having the ambition and drive I lacked 
after years of "maintenance-mode" maintainership!

*Stefan Monnier* deserves an honest mention too. He helped us land this, 
just likes he helps everyone else. Thanks Stefan!

So...

While it may no longer be "my" csharp-mode nor "my" community 
maintaining it, I still definitely want to keep it close and will try to 
provide patches and improvements when I can.

Rumour has it Theoder isn't writing that much C# any more (while I do), 
so feel free to email me if you have issues or suggestions. I'll try to 
stay around :)

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Kind regards
*Jostein Kjønigsen*

jostein@kjonigsen.net 🍵 jostein@gmail.com
https://jostein.kjønigsen.no <https://jostein.kjønigsen.no>

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