Re: Ada-mode to be abandoned?

[Daniel Mendler]

Dmitry <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, at 2:34 PM, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>
>  What I am wondering, is if this simplification were to take place, if it
>  would be possible to add ada-mode (or ada-ts-mode in that case) back to
>  the core?
>
> What is this fetish of adding everything to the core?
> ELPA is just one 'M-x package-install' away.
>
> And Ada is niche enough that even the argument of having the popular
> languages supported OOtB doesn't work.

I agree with Dmitry here. Also, recently there has also been a
discussion to add a `bicep-ts-mode' to Emacs core, with the argument
being that VSCode supports it. Makes sense, it is a Microsoft product to
help using Microsoft products. The description of Bicep on Github
(https://github.com/Azure/bicep) is "Bicep is a declarative language for
describing and deploying Azure resources". Does Bicep really need to be
part of Emacs core? Couldn't it be added to ELPA instead?

Daniel