From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:10:10 +0300 Message-ID: <83d1wd4e19.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737xf9je9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0fm0j3.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhb26eb9.fsf@gnu.org> <876126key3.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv1a6bfu.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1weo7u9.fsf@gnu.org> <83zizi3qr0.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhb1n81y.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8rhqzdd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tctxy1a.fsf@T420.taylan> <83fv194f0v.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2qlwhpl.fsf@T420.taylan> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445103822 13419 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2015 17:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ludo@gnu.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich =?utf-8?Q?Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1=2FK?= =?utf-8?Q?ammer?=) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 19:43:36 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnVW0-0003IB-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:43:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnVVz-0007Pd-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38161) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUzj-0000Mc-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUzi-0001gH-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:50098) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUzf-0001di-37; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWD00O00J9HVQ00@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:07:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWD00GT2JKUFL80@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:07:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87k2qlwhpl.fsf@T420.taylan> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191866 Archived-At: > From: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kamm= er) > Cc: dak@gnu.org, ludo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:03:18 +0200 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > But this discussion is about replacing most or all of the Emacs C= core > > with Guile. If we want to avoid rewriting, say, coding.c complet= ely > > from scratch, we need Guile to support the same operations as the= ones > > exposed by coding.c to Lisp applications. Currently, Guile doesn= 't. >=20 > I really don't think rewriting *all* of Emacs's C code in another > language is a realistic goal at all. But some do, and they started this sub-thread. > Rewriting select parts of it in Elisp and/or Scheme seems much more > realistic. But then it's prudent to ask do the gains justify the effort.