From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Development Speed Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:48:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83o85aypww.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31987"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: xenodasein@tutanota.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 21 15:57:57 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mzgaS-00084o-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:57:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55226 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzgaQ-0006Mt-Ut for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzgRc-0001Jt-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=51550 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzgRb-0004QY-P8; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:48:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ZrA1I8odK4TsqcOtl5z5SdAYBjf+y+qadz2RRxLjiVU=; b=lRt04Cq+Rj3B JRQv6Js3FDJxiA8bUwRV/Zxau2wdxSok1JhNrizGaJwDlOvhKN77iMX+LKJVg+YOO9qs7DSnzY0Pn 1hBBaHZdUJgLuMTYvM2XxGpVqVbP+JU/lVtpxVa6pvx7IFXBcNX66TpbECa5aXWed9nfd9wgN9OJi fFi98rVAqUnQ+LjCqzqHiHkKcFTvGZ06og0vYAh3gomthotz97lNpFHYpj04777aHonUFo2wFRLxR d/TXqLG8cwKymPaH+rztNZvIlAQ5cS74IjMNI0Kk3AJd18XWBedgsux8lhfTpulzL810kri7Uut7v 3YZbJ74wJpHvOk3mTfuNbA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3252 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzgRb-0006BE-JE; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:48:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (emacs-devel@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:282594 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:52:26 +0100 (CET) > Cc: Emacs Devel > From: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." > I do believe following latest C standard as early as possible is good > for an open source project. Why is that? We are talking about a project most of whose codebase is extremely stable and proven by many years of use. What could possibly new compilers give us except destabilize the code (due to bugs in early implementations of new standards)?