Projectile 3.0

Projectile 3.0 is finally out, and it’s a big one - easily the biggest release in years. There’s a nice reason for that: this year Projectile turns 15.1 It all started back in the summer of 2011, simply because I was frustrated that find-file-in-project didn’t work on Windows, and somehow that little anniversary made me want to shake things up and finally tackle a whole pile of changes I’d been putting off for ages. Some new features, some long-overdue spring cleaning, and a few things I’d wanted to remove for the better part of a decade. What’s dead can’t die There’s a running joke that Projectile is obsolete now that Emacs ships project.el out of the box. I’ve heard it many times, and I even wrote about it when Projectile turned 10 - it’s obviously hard to compete with a built-in package, as it has a home-field advantage you can never match. But here’s the thing. If it’s really true that Projectile is dead and everyone has moved on to project.el, then that’s oddly liberating. What’s…