From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Issues with emacs Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:52:17 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87a9zsbywe.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340546126 18878 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2012 13:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:55:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 15:55:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1SinHe-0003na-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinHe-0007be-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:55:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Trace: individual.net DjJbv0Bt5V3C5SALzvhl6Q388uiciP2e2y/lGgxqotvEeEXUHzescv0/4Al/Y/1kY6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZDk1ZTUxZmRjNzk4M2ZjNzg4Y2U5ZGQ1ODQwZjQ0MzY1MjQ1MzljMw== sha1:Dl9OQ0fd8hzeYlHF4kj1A0mwFN0= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193023 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85418 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > On Sun, Jun 24 2012, Tom wrote: > >> Bastien gnu.org> writes: >> >>> >>> The good news is that, whether Emacs users are a dying breed >>> or not, the only remedy to this hypothetical issue is to have >>> more Emacs developers. >>> >> >> But how to have more developers. I see 3 possibilites: >> >> 1. Motivate more users to be volunteer developers? Any idea how >> to do that? > > One possibility: if a pure-Lisp implementation of Emacs became the > "main" implementation, I wonder if many Elisp-gurus who aren't > particularly enthusiastic about C programming would be encouraged to > expand their hacking into the Emacs basics. > > If the line between programming Emacs packages and programming Emacs > guts were blurred or erased altogether, I'll bet you'd get a lot more > people able and willing to contribute work on fundamentals like the > display engine or multi-threading. > > Just a thought, Indeed. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.