Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

John Wiegley writes:
 > >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > One of the major lessons Emacs development learned since Emacs
 > > 20.1 is that raw bytes happen as part of text (a.k.a. "strings"),
 > > and therefore there's a need to support a mixture of these two in
 > > the same buffer/string. I think that's something Guile should
 > > support as well, as that will make it a more powerful and
 > > flexible extension language, able to deal with a wider range of
 > > real-life situations.
 > 
 > I'd like to second Eli's recommendation. In real life, encoding and
 > decoding of bytes to and from characters (codepoints) is never a
 > simple problem. We do need good flexibility here.

My very humble opinion is that it Guile should acquire such a string
type it could gain a big edge over more used programming languages.

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