From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:23:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpusjmwo.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83vbadp69k.fsf@gnu.org> <87egh1kx83.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r3l1p4fn.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8rpkvsu.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83pp0kq0h7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444652664 4191 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 12:24:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:24:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 14:24:15 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 1Zlc9E-000476-LX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:24:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlc9D-0006Ql-V0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlc8q-0006Mc-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlc8m-0007sv-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlc8m-0007sZ-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlc8k-0003gX-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:23:42 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.red-83-32-113.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.32.113.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:23:42 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 198.red-83-32-113.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:23:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.red-83-32-113.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aw/LhBNZli+Dhpwld9nJ5YkGF8U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:191323 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I think any language which is "better" (i.e. is known by more > programmers) will have the same problems. I'll like to insist on the fact that Elisp (a paradigm of niche language) has plenty of contributors, while just a few people work on the part of Emacs which is written in that epitome of a succesful language which is C. Obviously, on this case, "popular" doesn't imply "better". It would be interesting to know how many new hackers the C core got on, say, the last 10 years, who made contributions beyond correcting the occassional bug which is evident on a gdb backtrace.