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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:03:39 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> skribis:

> Shrug.  There is the GUILE branch.  In my opinion its largest obstacle
> towards acceptance is the failure of GUILE strings to offer a comparable
> feature set to Emacs multibyte strings: nothing outside of the Unicode
> range, no byte transparent reproduction.

OTOH, I imagine Emacs could build its own abstraction, if needed, on top
of Guile bytevectors.

> This needs an overhaul of GUILE's string handling (which delegates parts
> of it to helper libraries, some of those being under control of GNU,
> some not).

String handling is partly delegated to GNU libunistring.  There’s no
other library involved.

> GUILE's byte compiler is supposed to do a better job than Elisp.  It's
> still not native, but the layering of GUILE's compiler might make native
> code generation more realistic than with Elisp.

Agreed.

Ludo’.



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