From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: VanL <van@scratch.space>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Replacing all C code????
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:47:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1int8W-0006ht-S4@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24kxb75db.fsf@scratch.space> (message from VanL on Sat, 04 Jan 2020 23:50:24 +1100)
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Rewriting all the C code of Emacs in some other language would be a
tremendous job. With the same amount of work we could add many
important features that are lacking. We could make it possible to
edit fancy documents, which currently require a text formatter or
LibreOffice.
If execution of the other language is slower, the slowdown could make
Emacs unusable on old machines. Old machines such as the T200 and
T400 are very important for our freedom since we can run them with
Libreboot. We must not downgrade support for them.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-04 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-03 10:05 Using incremental parsing in Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 13:36 ` phillip.lord
2020-01-03 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 15:43 ` arthur miller
2020-01-03 16:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-03 17:09 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-03 19:39 ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-03 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 22:21 ` arthur miller
2020-01-04 3:46 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 23:53 ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-04 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 14:05 ` arthur miller
2020-01-04 19:26 ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-04 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 17:05 ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-05 19:14 ` yyoncho
2020-01-05 22:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-04 3:59 ` HaiJun Zhang
[not found] ` <41b3e9a0-2866-4692-a35c-6d9541bc3aaa@Spark>
2020-01-04 4:57 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 12:50 ` VanL
2020-01-04 13:22 ` arthur miller
2020-01-04 23:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-01-05 3:35 ` Replacing all C code???? VanL
2020-01-05 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-05 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 16:58 ` Fangrui Song
2020-01-05 22:18 ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-05 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 2:34 ` VanL
2020-01-04 13:30 ` Using incremental parsing in Emacs arthur miller
2020-01-04 13:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-04 14:46 ` arthur miller
2020-01-05 14:50 ` Alan Third
2020-01-05 15:16 ` arthur miller
2020-01-05 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 17:11 ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-09 21:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-10 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 1:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-11 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 12:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-11 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 20:26 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-04 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 14:19 ` Alan Third
2020-01-05 17:07 ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-05 19:16 ` Alan Third
2020-01-05 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 21:12 ` yyoncho
2020-01-05 22:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 23:08 ` yyoncho
2020-01-06 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 19:23 ` arthur miller
2020-01-05 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 20:28 ` arthur miller
2020-01-06 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 4:39 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-06 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 5:55 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-06 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 16:45 ` arthur miller
2020-01-07 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-06 16:36 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-06 16:48 ` arthur miller
2020-01-06 16:14 ` Anand Tamariya
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