Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28/08/2023 03:21, Po Lu wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
>
> > Yeah, a program written in C/C++/Rust which contains an interpreter
> > (and multiple jit's) for a dynamic programming language and has most
> > of its interface written in it, supports user extensions in the same
> > language, support display of arbitrary files and has several related
> > but different mechanisms for guiding the visuals and the layout of
> > said display. It also supports bidi.
>
> Using Bidi implementations which already exist, implementing standards
> already specified, and applying foreknowledge acquired through the
> development of other implementations of those standards, correct?

Something that we'd happily do as well, wouldn't we?

> When was the last time Firefox concerned itself with DPMI memory
> extenders?  The disparate means of obtaining boot times on different
> Unix and Microsoft systems?  File ACLs, SELinux, D-Bus, inode
> notifications, ELF, xcoff, the 9k800 aout?

Sorry if I'm not up-to-date with each and every component, but Firefox 
devs surely have to deal with SELinux, D-Bus, and executable formats.

JavaScript also has a filesystem access API.

> The scale and rapid development that is mandatory for a functioning web
> browser sounds impressive, but is ultimately narrow in scope.  Emacs's
> requirements are less imposing but greater in number,

...

> which compounded
> by a group of active developers whose number pales in comparison to that
> of Firefox, means that reducing the strain on any one of them is an
> overriding objective.

Even if that were the case, the plan breaks as soon as we run out of 
existing active developers, if we fail to recruit enough new ones.