I'm not sure that'll happen, because Emacs itself is not so much end-user software as it is a platform/VM for developing and running Elisp code. There are many

I'm not sure that'll happen, because Emacs itself is not so much end-user software as it is a platform/VM for developing and running Elisp code. There are many great applications and compatibility layers written to run on Emacs: - Evil for a decent editor, - calc for a good, flexible calculator, - magit for version control, - smerge for conflict resolution, - dired, org, notmuch, tramp, eshell, outshine, comint, htmlize, etc. and each of them deserves a "the good parts" book!