From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:33:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <8737xf9je9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0fm0j3.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhb26eb9.fsf@gnu.org> <876126key3.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv1a6bfu.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1weo7u9.fsf@gnu.org> <83zizi3qr0.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhb1n81y.fsf@gnu.org> <83si594wt3.fsf@gnu.org> <87io64iigs.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kso1gr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wpuks5ek.fsf@T420.taylan> <83vba4i1z3.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp0cqgjf.fsf@T420.taylan> <83twpoi0sp.fsf@gnu.org> <878u70qf75.fsf@T420.taylan> <83mvvghydi.fsf@gnu.org> <5623E3B5.8050407@dancol.org> <87y4f0kos9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5623EAB2.5000008@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445232848 20069 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2015 05:34:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 07:34:01 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 1Zo356-0007YJ-0z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:34:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo354-0006Fh-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo351-0006Fc-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo350-0007gx-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo34t-0007dS-Jw; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:33:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo34s-0003Dw-5f; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:33:46 -0400 In-reply-to: <5623EAB2.5000008@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Sun, 18 Oct 2015 11:53:38 -0700) 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:192032 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Guilemacs has other disadvantages: > currently, Emacs supports _only_ elisp as a first-class extension > language. Guilemacs would invite people to write Emacs extensions in > Scheme, JavaScript, and whatever else Guile ends up supporting, which > will create fragmentation. A unified elisp ecosystem is a strength. Supporting various languages such that they can call each other easily is a very nice feature, in my view. In fact, that's why I think incorporating Guile into Emacs is desirable. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.