From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:46:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvvnooo4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444679210 30380 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 19:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 21:46:41 2015 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 1Zlj3K-00054G-R4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:46:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlj3K-0000gJ-C4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44813) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlj3G-0000cy-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlj3B-0003oT-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:47249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlj3B-0003nt-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NW400800HAPWF00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:45:47 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NW400OWCHKBFA90@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:45:47 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:191385 Archived-At: > From: "John Wiegley" > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:39:32 -0700 >=20 > >>>>> =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: >=20 > > Or a more radical approach: a Lispy language, easy to learn by th= ose who > > already know Elisp, but which can be translated all the way to so= mething as > > performant as the current C code, while being capable of interact= ing with > > it. This way, whenever someone needs fast code, he would use this= other > > dialect instead of writing C, or the slow Elisp (or avoiding the = task > > altogether.) >=20 > If it can leverage what the contributor already knows about Elisp, = I'm all for > it. I wonder what RMS' and Eli's reaction would be. I just gave it. But I don't think it matters, as long as there's no volunteers that work on this in earnest. We are still dreaming. I withhold my real reaction until I actually see some language like that.