Re: About implementing libre.js/el in Emacs

[Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>]

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> On Aug 30, 2020, at 11:53 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> At the same time, having  a "web in emacs extension language" might
>> allow us to imagine, invent, and create a whole new class of
>> collaborative interactions
> 
> That phrase is evocative, but it isn't concrete.  It could mean many
> things.  To me, it suggests the idea of a web site that people
> interact with through a particular Emacs Lisp program.  Is that what
> you mean?

My understanding of Elisp as web extension language is nothing close
to compiling Elisp to Javascript. This brings little advantage
of Elisp — roughly summarized as “a reflexive programming
environment. We lose the ability to dynamically and interactively
extending the program if we have to run compilation/translation
on Elisp to get JS and then feed to the Webkit.

>  it suggests the idea of a web site that people
> interact with through a particular Emacs Lisp program.  Is that what
> you mean?

Does this mean basically a website serving Emacs Lisp program?
That’s good, or more conservatively, serving HTML documents
with embedded Emacs Lisp code (basically as a replacement for
JS), so while the website can have UI designed for Emacs, 
when user access it from other browser/program they still get the contents.

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