From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Spending time on Guile Emacs? Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:24:20 -0800 Message-ID: References: <8E340CA8-33E6-4697-8707-5127AA140C21@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480544787 348 195.159.176.226 (30 Nov 2016 22:26:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:26:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tobias Gerdin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 23:26:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDKY-000829-Iu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:26:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDKc-0001Od-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDIi-0000aP-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDIh-0001m2-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:24:28 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:46736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDIh-0001l5-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:24:27 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=E6zrJrZ0Vox+mLNW78//3FN53I+6FcBMDe2r1AE3qB4=; b=ItpHtKkPvJLt1cAeteBABC8YoXUjTDBXAZjY2y+7gtVO/gkqnOEpNgoiTwX5RFpf1h88NFH7mfYmRwggBYdQDUVcKR8rdjx8qm+eoc9q0OK2OcEBuhaRnRXYibtSj2uoJVdg1/wC9o1650LNRl7CyFVopmBX9l6W1RBJcx0MEABg4kPNUsJwNjcpv6yyjEtGICA17RkExBZgce3eHTVH7YSophrhUHQR4zV9RQ6IPpE8lWetYkK4UzqhaX0L7DbjEAV2xh5XiOnZ7PZSBbVTIFm92VKrnjlLlFEjA1eHDu/T+mPB1w0ExpM/yPgNm/4WcHIksHgLZCqc/asayhIRWA==; Original-Received: from [2620:0:1008:100b:bc8e:4940:ab86:ab74] (helo=dancol-glaptop0) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCDIg-00017I-N4; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:24:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:22:35 -0800") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:209844 Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 30 2016, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> "TG" == Tobias Gerdin writes: > > TG> So I am wondering if the time used to play catch-up with modern Lisps > TG> would not be better spent by integrating Guile? > > I really think this just comes to down to who is willing to do that work? > Guilemacs has made a lot of progress in the last few years, but it still > hasn't garnered much attention yet. Did we ever address the mismatch between Guile strings and Emacs ones? We can't depend on everything being valid UTF-8.