From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: are contributions on other programming languages than C and Emacs lisp bad idea? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1427040605.4453251.1569007946448.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1427040605.4453251.1569007946448@mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="25662"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs Developers To: Jorge Araya Navarro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 21 00:34:40 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iBRU7-0006VL-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:34:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35946 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iBRU6-0004jb-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iBRU0-0004jS-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iBRTy-00050n-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:56446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iBRTy-00050T-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 0C8FA10096A; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id CC2CD1002D3; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:27 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1569018867; bh=EcFG5TK5uqCDJogQKjNUPaW5VkdEKKDCjuLEyIIoFFk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=oQqBZXw3YtZ+MlPQYE4fphnk3Dh847y4DDmGMx9svhi6KRRbPtA+33NVyuOi+Y3sp /1yIGFthBq/qp1ClFGDe6LnBb+DFKNlRD46UeN9QOuXvAtQnPL7CSBDCoPvjjnWPSz SMon8agT0KxVjWQXAXGtTHFW6sRI52CtVuPOmsJF2HK4pzYfJqE11OBHcPUVYCOmka iVG87RFrccx9KkOlKaBUM5lobkXxr99hrMBISR17Bze95MC2tOT+6YHZ7uKUtNkF0M NDBRgP6wIYGzF3exWTIy7Iwfb/w6nVRpI1lLW8B9pLKsnhNBNE8XqzsdTTkNFdYpBd jVZ5kMHZk8pew== Original-Received: from alfajor (76-10-182-129.dsl.teksavvy.com [76.10.182.129]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E10A120910; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:34:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1427040605.4453251.1569007946448@mail.yahoo.com> (Jorge Araya Navarro's message of "Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:32:26 +0000 (UTC)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240209 Archived-At: > 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"