From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: are contributions on other programming languages than C and Emacs lisp bad idea? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:11:30 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <94c124f9-a903-ef4a-42cb-6a28e29028b3@cs.ucla.edu> References: <1427040605.4453251.1569007946448.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1427040605.4453251.1569007946448@mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="225785"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cc: Emacs Developers To: Jorge Araya Navarro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 20 23:12:23 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iBQCT-000wfQ-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:12:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35498 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iBQCS-0004Yj-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iBQBi-0004W0-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iBQBh-0004eS-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:56680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iBQBh-0004dW-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B951600C2; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id LFkf06sLIKUd; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934371600FC; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:11:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id GCqXFCYsmyIg; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6DABC1600C2; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:11:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1427040605.4453251.1569007946448@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240208 Archived-At: Modules can be written in any language that can grok a C API. The GNU Coding Standards suggest using C for Emacs core, and I expect we'd need a pretty good reason to depart from that. Despite inroads from other languages C is still kinda the lingua franca for low level stuff.