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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310517 Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:44=E2=80=AFAM Gerd M=C3=B6llmann wrote: > > If Emacs will ever be "rewritten", it will not be Emacs, but a > > text-processing system with a very different architecture and design, > > which will take from the Emacs experience the lessons we learned and > > implement them differently, to produce a system whose starting point > > is closer to the needs of today's users and whose main technologies > > are more modern from the get-go. > > I couldn't agree more. > > To me, a rewrite is quatsch, while adding CL facilities to Emacs makes a > lot of sense. +1 A rewrite (or somehow the ability to embed a CL runtime to run all our existing Elisp code) is not exactly 100% quatsch, but maybe 95%.