Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>]

On 28 August 2021 17:53:51 CEST, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Out of curiosity, I checked [0] to see what the languages are said to be
>> popular:
>
>Thanks -- interesting list.
>
>> | Language             | Status                                |
>> |----------------------+---------------------------------------|
>> | C                    | Built-In                              |
>> | Python               | Built-In                              |
>> | Java                 | Built-In                              |
>> | C++                  | Built-In                              |
>> | C#                   | ELPA                                  |
>
>To clarify -- when I said that C# didn't need to be in Emacs Core, it's
>not because it's not a major language (it is), but it's my opinion that
>it's unlikely that a large number of people would want to use Emacs when
>programming in C#.  (Because the IDEs that come bundled with the popular
>C# compilers are what people are using, and it seems unlikely that many
>people would want to switch away from those.)
>

What? There's at least two of us!

Joking aside, I didn't mean to start a "why isn't my mode in core" thread. The rules just seemed a little arbitrary. Also now with LSP a thing this is more viable than ever. The only benefit would be one off edits wouldn't need a package download.

Not a major issue though