From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:28:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410956965 21245 80.91.229.3 (17 Sep 2014 12:29:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 14:29:17 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 1XUEMF-0001ys-2q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:29:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUEME-0001gB-Kq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46757) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUELo-0001Wk-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUELg-0007x7-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:64615) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUELg-0007wV-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:28:40 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpZEG/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpZEG/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="90079639" Original-Received: from 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.145.6]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 17 Sep 2014 08:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 56E0662FAE; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:28:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:01:13 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:174415 Archived-At: > base and it would also make it possible to use other languages to extend > Emacs, because widdely used VMs have frontend implementations for > many modern languages (Python, etc.) As mentioned in my previous message about Guile-Emacs, I tend to think this would be a liability rather than a feature. Stefan