From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:17:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4q69m4a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418840286 441 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2014 18:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs To: Sven Axelsson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 19:18:00 2014 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 1Y1JAc-0003ye-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:17:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JAb-0003b4-Hz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:17:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JAY-0003ay-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:17:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JAX-0005La-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JAX-0005LT-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50569 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JAW-0002tj-LN; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:17:52 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0935DF30F; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:17:41 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Sven Axelsson's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:54:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:180240 Archived-At: Sven Axelsson writes: > If the only remaining reason for this change is to attract new, young > and hip contributors, maybe it is also time to rewrite Emacs in > Haskell and CoffeScript. That would surely bring in lots of new > contributors and breathe new life into the project. Right? Well, rewriting Emacs in Common Lisp has been done once or twice (I seem to remember something called Hemlock for example). The net attraction for new developers as compared to the old ones did not really seem to give those projects a significant boost as compared to Emacs. -- David Kastrup