Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/29/2016 10:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If we don't attract more core developers, we will never get out of this vicious 
> cycle.

Although we certainly could use more core developers, it's quite a 
stretch to say that switching from unexec to a portable undumper will 
scare recruits away. On the contrary, the portable approach is simpler 
and easier for non-experts than what we have now.

> C programmers are a dying breed
I don't agree, as C is an essential component of GNU/Linux and is 
robustly represented in the practical and research programming 
communities. (For what it's worth, C's popularity is ranked #7 in PyPL 
and #2 in TIOBE.) Although it'd be fine to replacing the core Emacs 
interpreter with something better if we can scare up developer resources 
to do that, in the meantime it's OK to assume C expertise for people 
modifying the Emacs interpreter.