Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[David Kastrup]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/11/2015 02:23 PM, Thomas Koch wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_%28editor%29
>>
>> Haskell is my personal favorite language when talking about maintainability.
>> A migration path from emacs to Yi would be wonderful, e.g. execute elisp in
>> Yi?
>
> I'm pretty sure the current core maintainers don't know Haskell, or
> Rust, or any other modern "hipster" language, to the extent a rewrite
> would require. Probably not everyone knows Common Lisp either.
>
> So any volunteers to do the rewrite and then maintain the resulting
> codebase, should please step up.

They did so long ago.  Hemlock is a Common Lisp Emacs recast if
I remember correctly.

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David Kastrup