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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:33:46 -0400

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  > Guilemacs has other disadvantages:
  > currently, Emacs supports _only_ elisp as a first-class extension
  > language. Guilemacs would invite people to write Emacs extensions in
  > Scheme, JavaScript, and whatever else Guile ends up supporting, which
  > will create fragmentation. A unified elisp ecosystem is a strength.

Supporting various languages such that they can call each other easily
is a very nice feature, in my view.  In fact, that's why I think
incorporating Guile into Emacs is desirable.

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