Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> The C we have works for us, so this idea is pretty low priority. As you
>> wrote in another thread, there are several, higher priority items that
>> would win us more contributors faster (documentation, etc). Even changing
>> from C to a Lisp would not be a silver bullet: the display code would still
>> be a hard problem to solve.

> And yet the thread goes on.  Lower priority, little light.

I'm OK with this discussion, since we have developers who are curious about
the feasibility and benefits such a change might bring. Yes, it's low
priority, but that doesn't make it uninteresting. :)

John