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Guile is the standard extensibility package of the GNU Project, All
GNU packages that include an interpreter for extensibility are
supposed to use Guile.  It is inconsistent for Emacs not to support
Guile.

It would not make sense to replace Guile with Emacs Lisp in everything
else.