This is great news! I'm glad to hear about both of these projects. Please do send updates to the mailing lists as they progress! Thanks, Noah On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guilers & Emacsers! > > I’m pleased to announce that there will be two Guile-related projects > going on as part of GSoC this year: > > • Guile-Emacs, by BT Templeton > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/bpt/35002 > > BT will continue the excellent work that has been done on Guile and > Emacs integration. Previous GSoCs focused on providing a > full-fledged Emacs Lisp front-end to Guile’s compiler and VM. This > project focuses on the missing piece: replacing the Emacs Lisp > interpreter in Emacs by Guile. > > • Emacsy, by Shane Celis > > https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/shanecelis/1 > > This is another approach to the Emacs/Guile vision: Shane will work > on a framework, Emacsy, that will allow application developers to > easily “emacsify” them–i.e., by providing the mechanisms for a > “key-lookup-execute-command loop” similar to that of Emacs, with > Guile inside. > > (Shane and BT: feel free to introduce yourself and your project.) > > I’m the mentor for these two projects, but I really hope they will > develop with good interaction with the Guile and Emacs folk. In > particular, I would like development issues and road maps to be > discussed primarily on the relevant project mailing lists. > > I’m very excited about these two projects. I think they will help > promote a vision where users are in control and can readily exert their > freedom to study and adapt the software to their needs. > > Thanks a lot to José and Giuseppe who have wonderfully handled GNU’s > participation in GSoC, and happy hacking! > > Ludo’. >