From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 15:33:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83int1g0s5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <9D64B8EA-DB52-413D-AE6A-264416C391F3@iotcl.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476016404 31562 195.159.176.226 (9 Oct 2016 12:33:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 12:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, lars@nocrew.org To: Toon Claes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 09 14:33:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1btDI5-0007Lr-Kn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:33:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btDI4-0007gZ-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 08:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btDHy-0007gU-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 08:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btDHt-0000VA-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 08:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btDHt-0000V0-CU; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 08:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4706 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1btDHr-00041p-3x; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 08:33:03 -0400 In-reply-to: <9D64B8EA-DB52-413D-AE6A-264416C391F3@iotcl.com> (message from Toon Claes on Sun, 9 Oct 2016 14:03:18 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208115 Archived-At: > From: Toon Claes > Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 14:03:18 +0200 > Cc: Lars Brinkhoff , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 7 Oct 2016, at 19:07, John Wiegley wrote: > > It would be nice to have real compilation > of Emacs Lisp after the manner of Common Lisp, and maybe the concurrency > support; > > Oh yes, please add concurrency support! > Would it help if we would start a crowdfunding campaign for this? Because I know a few fellow emacs user > who would definitely back it. There's already a concurrency branch in the Emacs repository. It needs some work before it could be merged to master, so if there are people here who wants this badly enough, I suggest that they continue work almost done by Tom Tromey, who developed that branch, instead of starting anew. TIA.