Re: are contributions on other programming languages than C and Emacs lisp bad idea?

[Devesh Sukhwal <bingojeeves@fastmail.com>]

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Le 21 septembre 2019 06:07:10 GMT+05:30, Jorge Javier Araya Navarro <jorgejavieran@yahoo.com.mx> a écrit :
>
>
>El viernes 20 de septiembre del 2019 a las 1634 horas, Stefan Monnier
>escribió:
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>>> Wondering this. The only downside of this would be installing more
>>> dependencies to build Emacs, say, if someone were to do a
>contribution to
>>> Emacs core with Rust
>>
>> There are two problems:
>> - imposing an additional dependency for those who compile Emacs (and
>>   potentially even for those who *use* Emacs if it requires a
>specific
>>   run-time library).
>> - imposing knowledge of an additional language for the maintainers.
>>
>> If the feature is *very* desirable, hard to reimplement in C or
>Elisp,
>> and is optional, I guess maybe potentially it could hypothetically
>> be discussed?
>>
>>
>>         Stefan "who likes Rust, FWIW"
>
>That's what I was fearing, jaja. If a feature fulfills those three
>requirements maybe a discussion
>about it could (hypothetically) start. Got it.
>
>Was asking because I would like to run some experiments to scratch an
>itch I have, but I did not
>wanted to waste time if such thing won't be shipped with the rest of
>Emacs (or not? if anything, the
>thing I want to do can land on GNU ELPA I guess).

BTW, there is remacs ( https://github.com/remacs/remacs) for the particular itch of rust. 

Thanks
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