I prefer not to invent new variables when they aren't strictly
necessary. org-directory is one such variable (although the other path
variables are still necessary).
This is in preparation for general.el integration coming in 2.1.1. It is
very likely that map! will change (and even more, be split into several
macros). Not much, but change none-the-less. Specifically, the state
keywords (e.g. :nvi, :n, :i) will be removed in favor of a :state
property that takes a list, e.g. (normal visual insert).
In any case, both map! and general are also relatively expensive
compared to define-key and evil-define-key* (and the new define-key!
macro), so use that when we can.
This also means changes to either API won't affect Doom's modules in the
long term.
The config/private module has been removed. ~/.doom.d (or
~/.config/doom; whichever is detected first) is now a first class
citizen of Doom and should just work(tm).
Your init.el only needs to contain:
(require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))
And you may place your doom! block in ~/.doom.d/init.el (or
~/.config/doom/init.el).