Re: Emlua: a way to run a Lua interpreter inside Emacs as a module

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I linked Lua because it is my favorite language and in most cases I
  > write Lua code much faster that I write Lisp... and I _did_ try to
  > write hooks to process the output of an inferior Lua process to write
  > code that would process some kinds of outputs as sexps, but failed.

For the sake of the maintainance and development burden of Emacs,
it is crucial to do it that way, running Lua as a separate process.
The dynamic module would be system-dependent, and even if volunteers
do the work of developing it for a wide range of systems, it will
still put a burden on us, a burden that volunteers would have
difficulty taking off our shoulders.

Yes, it is tricky to communicate reliably with a subprocess.
But there are other Lisp packages that do this.  All it will
take to get that to work is for one clever wizard to figure
out the right way, and implement it once.

Would someone like to work on this?


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