Emacs for macOS and Darwin versions
Regarding to Emacs crashing: AI found that my Drawin version of Emacs might be the cause. I’ve been using Emacs for Mac OS which ran darwin21.6.0 - old… (current version on macOS is 25.3.0)
The question is, is this really the problem, or more like the AI making stuff up? It makes sense to me that an Emacs build is based on a slightly older Darwin version, though I’m not an expert. Another reason for this suspicion is that the AI assistant recommended emacs-plus without considering emacs for macOS. I know both are solid based on my own research, and I used Emacs-plus (available with Homebrew) for a while. I’ve been using Emacs for macOS for about a year, and it’s been fine until I believe I updated to the latest macOS, which everyone seems to hate, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it has to do with macOS 26 more than anything else.
For now, I installed the latest version of Emacs for macOS, which was built on darwin23.2 - still behind, but not as bad. If this is what’s running Emacs 30.2 for so many Mac users, it further confirms my suspicion that the Darwin version is not really the issue. But maybe I’m wrong.
I posted my question on Reddit to get some feedback, and out of curiosity, see what the Darwin version is for Emacs-plus (don’t want to install it right now). Guess we’ll see.