Re: Guile & Emacs chat at emacs hackathon/bug-crush SF

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>]

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This is wonderful news! :-)

I've actually tried out guile-emacs recently. What would be wonderful to
have is some kind of simple "map" over what has been done so far (e.g. the
large-scale structure of the code and what the relationship between the
elisp and guile interpreter currently is). Maybe that exists and I didn't
find it?

Best regards,
Mikael D.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Christopher Allan Webber <
cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:

> Heya everyone,
>
> I was at the Emacs hackathon / bug crushing event and I gave a couple
> demos that were Guile related, one showing off guile-emacs, and one
> showing off Guix's Emacs integration.  So the good news is: the talk
> went super, super well (on both, but especially guile-emacs), and
> enthusiasm was high!  When I showed guile-emacs live, there were some
> amazed expressions to see oh hey... this is *really* working!
>
> I also had a conversation with John Wiegley, current maintainer of
> emacs, and he said several things:
>
>  - He thinks it would be *great* to have Emacs running on Scheme, a
>    clear win, assuming it's integrated and runs fast and works well.
>
>  - However, Guile would have to be able to make a promise: once Emacs
>    ran on top of Guile, Emacs would have to be able to have say over
>    anything that could end up changing actual semantics in Emacs
>    (mainly, anything that would break Emacs user's source code).
>
>    (I think there's an easy answer to this: guile-emacs is already
>    aiming for heavy backwards compatibility and should just preserve
>    that at this level.)
>
>  - If we could prove that performance was better in guile-emacs, that's
>    an easy way to win enthusiasm.
>
>  - A good goal to work towards: all of emacs' tests should pass using
>    guile-emacs.
>
> So that's all a ways off, but I'm feeling enthusiastic that it's
> possible!
>
>  - Chris
>
> PS: I'd like to see bipt's elisp branch merged with master.  I might try
> to help... I'm trying to learn enough to do so.  However I don't have a
> lot of time, and especially not a lot of experience with compilers..
>
>

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