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Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> So before I continue working on this, I would like to ask if there is
> any interest/there are any objections to providing such a library?

I'd appreciate having this available.  As it is, when new features are
added to Emacs, it generally takes a few years, at least, before one can
use them in packages outside of Emacs, since old Emacs versions are used
in the wild for so long.