Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:03:18 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > But this discussion is about replacing most or all of the Emacs C core
> > with Guile.  If we want to avoid rewriting, say, coding.c completely
> > from scratch, we need Guile to support the same operations as the ones
> > exposed by coding.c to Lisp applications.  Currently, Guile doesn't.
> 
> I really don't think rewriting *all* of Emacs's C code in another
> language is a realistic goal at all.

But some do, and they started this sub-thread.

> Rewriting select parts of it in Elisp and/or Scheme seems much more
> realistic.

But then it's prudent to ask do the gains justify the effort.