Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Out of curiosity, I checked [0] to see what the languages are said to be
>> popular:
>
> Thanks -- interesting list.
>
>> | Language             | Status                                |
>> |----------------------+---------------------------------------|
>> | C                    | Built-In                              |
>> | Python               | Built-In                              |
>> | Java                 | Built-In                              |
>> | C++                  | Built-In                              |
>> | C#                   | ELPA                                  |
>
> To clarify -- when I said that C# didn't need to be in Emacs Core, it's
> not because it's not a major language (it is), but it's my opinion that
> it's unlikely that a large number of people would want to use Emacs when
> programming in C#.  (Because the IDEs that come bundled with the popular
> C# compilers are what people are using, and it seems unlikely that many
> people would want to switch away from those.)

How popular is .net core on gnu/linux? Do peole write lots of C# stuff for that
runtime in gnu/linux environment?

I am sure though that Lars resoning there holds for VB/VBA/VBScript.