Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 9, 2025

• Some things to expect in 2025: in which our tradition of making unreliable predictions for the coming year continues.
• A look at the Sequoia command-line interface: a reimagined interface for public-key encryption.
• Emacs in Scheme: a project to reimplement the Emacs editor in the Scheme variant of Lisp.
• Preventing data races with Pony: this programming language can make data races impossible.
• The Homa network protocol: a proposed new IP-based protocol for data centers by John Ousterhout.
• 2024 Linux and free software timeline: a detailed recap of events from the past year.

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.