From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tony Day Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: emacs roadmap Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:25:39 +1100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355696750 8204 80.91.229.3 (16 Dec 2012 22:25:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:25:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 16 23:26:04 2012 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 1TkMeq-0004ex-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:26:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkMec-00024m-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46381) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkMeb-00024g-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:25:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkMeZ-00022w-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:25:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:63756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkMeZ-00022s-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:25:47 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id xa7so3181793pbc.0 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:25:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=4MWi5j36/2nKdFvSThwmoiPEB+pigye47stQPM2Ytvg=; b=TmqTgcoEGpwy2g89Lq7qVQ6N30NHyWDHUjA1qESHV1CqN5b0lf1iBCE+2XKD/d2eA7 hRXMQoseA/cFTAHvHntOru+P2ZuG03CVwR7noLE32NhoYCaEJ4qmxXCr1v9uvUZ9xJ4J p7rewTFcBbDjBRmh4HQdPsuj7WeDQ/gLW4y9BtaKYyLrlUdYr61mAzK+wqLtv9CUxBys 0zdV1t8o5kRPcHTxKulnuFwWcfdvwkpYKfqNy1tMidklS3jLbuVLkPmT7yTL9wLTI+Zs OOWHsKtStZUZShI8ZjYhs1EiGZ5Xfn+Ahd6JtlWmaBiUp2iMoxK5RT8F4lzNeAmT54f9 4p7Q== Original-Received: by 10.68.213.202 with SMTP id nu10mr38085513pbc.91.1355696746406; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:25:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from silver (CPE-120-148-228-120.hdqu1.vic.bigpond.net.au. [120.148.228.120]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d2sm7320306paw.19.2012.12.16.14.25.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:25:45 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.41 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:155607 Archived-At: Is there a long term roadmap for emacs research and development that someone could point to? Having done my homework I find nothing out there except rumour and myth. For instance: - Is multi-threading coming to emacs 25? - Is there realistic support for replacing elisp with guile? Is that considered possible even? - If elisp is the future, what type of changes are envisaged? - double escape regex fix? - lexical closures (to support no namespaces)? - first-class print for functions? More generally, when can we get turtles all the way down and enjoy the return of the symbolic machine?