From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:36:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87wputcyt2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <37070110.9L66NSjN8A@x121e> <561A6001.7060109@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444570624 9213 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2015 13:37:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: thomas@koch.ro, =?utf-8?Q?Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 11 15:37:04 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 1ZlGo7-0003KJ-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:36:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48385 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlGo6-00061r-Ua for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlGnu-00061l-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlGnt-0008K6-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlGnp-0008Im-Hp; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58982 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlGno-0002FU-SQ; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 88A97E13B5; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:36:09 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <561A6001.7060109@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:11:29 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:191225 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > On 10/11/2015 02:23 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_%28editor%29 >> >> Haskell is my personal favorite language when talking about maintainabil= ity. >> A migration path from emacs to Yi would be wonderful, e.g. execute elisp= in >> Yi? > > I'm pretty sure the current core maintainers don't know Haskell, or > Rust, or any other modern "hipster" language, to the extent a rewrite > would require. Probably not everyone knows Common Lisp either. > > So any volunteers to do the rewrite and then maintain the resulting > codebase, should please step up. They did so long ago. Hemlock is a Common Lisp Emacs recast if I=A0remember correctly. --=20 David Kastrup